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Richard P. Feynman Quotes about Learning

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We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, I don't know.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

Richard P. Feynman
Learning, Doubt, Needs

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Richard P. Feynman
Sex, Learning, Science

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Richard P. Feynman
Inspiring, Education, Learning
Quoted in James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

Richard P. Feynman
Nature, Real, Learning
The Character of Physical Law ch. 2 (1965)

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard P. Feynman
Learning, Technology, Mad

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman
Learning, Science, Doors
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1988.

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Richard P. Feynman
Graduation, Learning, School
Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.9, Princeton University Press

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

Richard P. Feynman
Learning, Language, Problem
"New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics". Richard P. Feynman, "Engineering and Science", Volume 28, No. 6, March 1965.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

Richard P. Feynman
Stars, Learning, Science
"Richard P. Feynman, Teacher". David L. Goodstein, "Physics Today", Volume 42, No. 2, February 1989.

When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

Richard P. Feynman
Learning, Dark, Want

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

Richard P. Feynman
Motivation, Learning, School

When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

Richard P. Feynman
Learning, Persistence, Simple

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