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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Richard P. Feynman
Real, Science, Imagination
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.87, Princeton University Press

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.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

Richard P. Feynman
Imagination
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.128, Princeton University Press

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard P. Feynman
Nature, Men, Imagination
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.85, Princeton University Press

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

Richard P. Feynman
Nature, Imagination, Usual
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.128, Princeton University Press

The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.

Richard P. Feynman
Science, Imagination, Understanding
Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.32, Hachette UK

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

Richard P. Feynman
Men, Thinking, Imagination
"The Quotable Feynman".

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

Richard P. Feynman
Knowledge, Science, Imagination
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter”, p.678, Basic Books

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard P. Feynman
Imagination, Needs, Terrible

It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.

Richard P. Feynman
Angel, Imagination, Degrees
"The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1964.

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