“ No phenomenon directly involving a frequency has yet been detected above approximately 10^12 cycles per second. We only deduce the higher frequencies from the energy of the particles, by a rule which… Richard P. Feynman
“ I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. But during the day, other guys would come to me with the same problem, and I’d do it for them in a flash.… Richard P. Feynman
“ I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. Richard P. Feynman
“ I don’t believe in honors, it bothers me, honors bother, honors is epaulettes, honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. I can’t stand it, it hurts me. Richard P. Feynman
“ How I'm rushing through this! How much each sentence in this brief story contains. The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth. I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on. Poe… Richard P. Feynman
“ He detested hierarchy and enjoyed the friendship of people in all walks of life. He was, like Shakespeare, an actor with a talent for comedy. Richard P. Feynman
“ For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. Richard P. Feynman
“ If we were to name the most powerful assumption of all, which leads one on and on in an attempt to understand life, it is that all things are made of atoms, and that everything that living things do c… Richard P. Feynman
“ Else can you do with the law of gravitation? If we look at the moons of Jupiter we can understand everything about the way they move around that planet. Incidentally, there was once a certain difficul… Richard P. Feynman
“ What a contrast—the person sitting at the table gets this nice cake on a doilied plate, while the pantry man back there with the stubby thumbs is saying, ‘Damn deez doilies!’ So that was the differenc… Richard P. Feynman
“ What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it… Richard P. Feynman
“ So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your posit… Richard P. Feynman
“ If you try once or twice to communicate and get pushed back, pretty soon you decide, To hell with it. Richard P. Feynman
“ I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end. Richard P. Feynman
“ It is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the… Richard P. Feynman
“ Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing must happen. This is simply not true, it is not a fundam… Richard P. Feynman
“ In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right... Richard P. Feynman
“ I USED to cross the United States in my automobile every summer, trying to make it to the Pacific Ocean. But, for various reasons, I would always get stuck somewhere—usually in Las Vegas. Richard P. Feynman
“ When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: We _know_ a… Richard P. Feynman
“ The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read. Richard P. Feynman
