Richard P. Feynman Quotes

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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

The decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk.

When you are on the very frontier of science, everything is chaotic.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied.

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labor, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment …

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.