Richard P. Feynman Quotes


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.


Citations

Feynman, Richard P. "Banquet Speech." Les Prix Nobel en 1965, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966.

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Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
  • Born: May 11, 1918
  • Died: February 15, 1988
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Nobel Laureate, Physicist & Mathematician

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and particle physics. He's known for his work on the Manhattan Project, developing Feynman diagrams, and explaining the interactions between light and matter. While studying for his PhD, Feynman participated in the Manhattan Project and helped develop the atomic bomb. For contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.