Richard Feynman | Theoretical Physicist 📘

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Don't trust atoms, they make up everything.

Religion is a culture of faith. Science is a culture of doubt.

Strive for progress, not for perfection.

When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others. It's the same thing when you are stupid.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.

Learning is underrated. Grades are overrated.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

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

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

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

Don't trust atoms, they make up everything.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

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