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Richard P. Feynman Quotes about Understanding

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To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.

Richard P. Feynman
Beer, Math, Understanding

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Richard P. Feynman
Inspirational, People, Understanding
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Richard P. Feynman
Real, Math, Understanding
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, p. 70, 1985.

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard P. Feynman
Understanding, Mind, Female

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.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

Richard P. Feynman
Understanding, Religion, Atheism

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

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

Richard P. Feynman
Law, Understanding, Way

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