Richard P. Feynman Quotes about Responsibility

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Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Responsibility, Unreasonable, Human Race

Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

Richard P. Feynman

Freedom, Philosophy, Responsibility

"The Value of Science". Public address at the National Academy of Sciences, published in "What Do You Care What Other People Think" (1988), Autumn 1955.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

Richard P. Feynman

Integrity, Lying, Responsibility