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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Richard P. Feynman
Spiritual, Simplicity, Spirituality
"The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

Richard P. Feynman
Truth Will Come Out
"Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

Richard P. Feynman
Worry, Anything Goes, Good Times
"No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 252, 1994.

Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.

Richard P. Feynman
Writing, Artist, Age

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

Richard P. Feynman
Beautiful, Father, Discovery
"No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 28, 1994.

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

Richard P. Feynman
Energy, Subtle, Difficult
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.70, Princeton University Press

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Richard P. Feynman
Sarcastic, Believe, Thinking
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.44, Princeton University Press

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Richard P. Feynman
Stars, Science, Night
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Richard P. Feynman
Swimming, Men, Past
Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

Richard P. Feynman
Stupid, Thinking, Two
YouTube Chanel "sdfhsfh"/ "Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion", www.youtube.com. November 3, 2007.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman
Inspirational, Nature, Science
Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

Richard P. Feynman
People, Understanding, Wish
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

Richard P. Feynman
Imagination
"Photons: Corpuscles of Light". Richard P. Feynman's lecture 1 at the Sir Douglas Robb lectures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, www.youtube.com. 1979.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Richard P. Feynman
Knowledge, Deals, Known
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.111, Princeton University Press

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

Richard P. Feynman
Thinking, Be Good
Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.15, Hachette UK

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

Richard P. Feynman
Teacher, Teaching, Thinking
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

Richard P. Feynman
Play, Worry, Want
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.30, Princeton University Press

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Richard P. Feynman
Ordinary, Fool, Hocus Pocus
Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.284, Random House

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

Richard P. Feynman
Believe, Men, Thinking
The Character of Physical Law ch. 6 (1965)

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Richard P. Feynman
Inevitability Of Death, Biology, Found
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.127, Princeton University Press

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman
Science, Important, Mathematics

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Richard P. Feynman
Law, Fundamentals, Physics
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

Richard P. Feynman
Distance, Simple, Finals

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

Richard P. Feynman
Death, Knowledge, Science
"Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Richard P. Feynman
Play, Disease, Serious
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.241, Princeton University Press

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