Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. He shared an Nobel prize for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. Here are some of the Richard Feynman quotes. These science quotes will sure inspire you.
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
“Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
“The first person you should be careful not to fool is yourself. Because you are the easiest person to fool”.”
“I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax”
“There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”
“Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty”
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
“There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough”
“You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.”
“Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world”
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
Richard Feynman
“I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That’s their mistake, not my failing.”
“The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.”
“Once you start doubting, just like you’re supposed to doubt, you ask me if the science is true. You say no, we don’t know what’s true, we’re trying to find out and everything is possibly wrong.”
“The whole problem of discovering what was the matter, and figuring out what you have to do to fix it–that was interesting to me, like a puzzle”
“Nobody understands the world they’re in, but some people are better off at it than others.”
Richard Feynman
“A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.”
Famous Science quotes from Richard Feynman
“Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.”
“Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.”
“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.”
“It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.”