“ I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more. Richard P. Feynman
“ You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. Richard P. Feynman
“ You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I w… Richard P. Feynman
“ THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING,AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING? Richard P. Feynman
“ So our problem is to explain where symmetry comes from. Why is nature so nearly symmetrical? No one has any idea why. The only thing we might suggest is something like this: There is a gate inJapan, a… Richard P. Feynman
“ Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, I am going to tell you something that you will never forget. And then he said, To every man is given the key to the gates… Richard P. Feynman
“ Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this… Richard P. Feynman
“ I’m not responsible for what other people think I am able to do; I don’t have to be good because they think I’m going to be good. Richard P. Feynman
“ It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of pla… Richard P. Feynman
“ I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying. Richard P. Feynman
“ The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates. Richard P. Feynman
“ Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. Richard P. 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 stru… Richard P. Feynman
“ Don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, Richard P. Feynman
“ You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen. Richard P. Feynman
“ There is a most profound and beautiful question associated with the observed coupling constant, e - the amplitude for a real electron to emit or absorb a real photon. It is a simple number that has be… Richard P. Feynman
“ The attempts to try to represent the electric field as the motion of some kind of gear wheels, or in terms of lines, or of stresses in some kind of material have used up more effort of physicists than… Richard P. Feynman
“ Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its validity is not experiment. Richard P. Feynman
“ I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It's difficult to describe because it's an emotion. It's an… Richard P. Feynman
