47 Richard Feynman Quotes on Science, Nature, and Education

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Richard Feynman is an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and particle physics.

In addition to being a brilliant scientist, Richard is also known for his ability to explain complex scientific concepts to a journal audience in a simple manner, which is why he is called ‘The Great Explainer’.

Table of Contents

• Top 10 Famous Quotes By Richard Feynman
• 16 Richard Feynman Quotes on Science and Education
• 13 Best Inspiring Richard Feynman Quotes
• 8 Richard Feynman Quotes that Capture the Essence of Physics

Top 10 Famous Quotes By Richard Feynman

“See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than man’s imagination.”

~ Richard Feynman

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

~ Richard Feynman

“God was invented to explain the mystery.”

~ Richard Feynman

“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.”

~ Richard Feynman

“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”

~ Richard Feynman

 “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 Feynman

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”

~ Richard Feynman

“The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.“

~ Richard Feynman

“The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.“

~ Richard Feynman

“There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.“

~ Richard Feynman

16 Richard Feynman Quotes on Science and Education

“It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.“

~ Richard Feynman

“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying ‘one, two, three, four, five protons’, they say, hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.”

~ Richard Feynman

“First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.“

~ Richard Feynman

 “Outside of their particular area of expertise, scientists are just as dumb as the next person.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Is a science of any value? I think the power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”

~ Richard Feynman

“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.”

~ Richard Feynman

“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.” 

~ Richard Feynman

“The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.“

~ Richard Feynman

“Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.”

~ Richard Feynman

“It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.“

~ Richard Feynman

“It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what is less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.”

~ Richard Feynman

“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.“

~ Richard Feynman

13 Best Inspiring Richard Feynman Quotes

“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

~ Richard Feynman

“There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature“

~ Richard Feynman

“Teach principles not formulas.”

~ Richard Feynman

“It’s amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.”

~ Richard Feynman

“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.“

~ Richard Feynman

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

~ Richard Feynman

“If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!“

~ Richard Feynman

“People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!”

~ Richard Feynman

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

~ Richard Feynman

“When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‘Calculus for the Practical Man.’ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. “

~ Richard Feynman

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning.” 

~ Richard Feynman

“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.”

~ Richard Feynman

8 Richard Feynman Quotes that Capture the Essence of Physics

“Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.”

~ Richard Feynman

“Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type“

~ Richard Feynman

“Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still, there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter.“

~ Richard Feynman

“We do not know the rules of the game; all we are allowed to do is watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.“

~ Richard Feynman

“It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can’t go on without the facts.” 

~ Richard Feynman

“Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical. “

~ Richard Feynman

“The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.”

~ Richard Feynman

“I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.”

~ Richard Feynman

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