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

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some ot...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some ot...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they lear...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER
DEMI LOVATO
Certainly all of our lives are unfinished, ... how they must learn to forgive what they perceive as ...
MARK SPRAGG
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass runni...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Don’t be afraid of falling. By falling we learn to go safely.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I don't believe that children are born with empathy. It is something they learn by seeing it modeled...
JACQUI RIVAIT
People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE
With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some w...
JOHN NIVEN
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Don’t allow yourself to be killed by what’s killing You within!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about...
MARK TWAIN
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they ca...
ZIG ZIGLAR
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding...
FEDERICO FELLINI
Be inquisitive. You already know what you know. A straightforward way to learn something new is simp...
SUSAN C. YOUNG
By sharing and exchanging ideas, people will get to know each other and learn about their community.
LINDA ASHCRAFT
People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I don’t know what’s wrong with that girl.
PAU GASOL
The only thing almost all people don’t understand is something whose monetary benefits they don’...
ANUJ SOMANY
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printe...
GEORGE ELIOT
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says ...
KAREN MARIE MONING
Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Fisher Ames observed of Hamilton that the common people don’t want leaders “whom they see elevat...
RON CHERNOW
People always think they know other people, but they don’t. Not really. I mean, maybe they know th...
LIBBA BRAY
Don’t hate people who show you what’s wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true f...
C. JOYBELL C.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
MARK TWAIN
Don’t look back & ask why, move forward & say why not as curiosity keeps moving ,opening new door ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Don’t look back & waste your time, what you have lost, can be a lesson for you, nothing more than ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.
LOLLY DASKAL
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
ANONYMOUS
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
MARK TWAIN
Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s somethin...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
Learn from seeds; they don’t die when you throw dirt at them; they grow.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize ever...
CHRIS DIETZEL
Religion is an infectious and contagious virus. It can infect everyone if they don’t have immunity...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
We live in a strange world where people don’t try to know who we are, rather they go by, what they...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Failure remains failure if we don’t learn something from it.
VIKRANT PARSAI
However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this und...
MADELEINE BOURDOUXHE
People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don...
MARILYN MANSON
Not all difficult individuals we face require direct confrontation about their behavior. Some people...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselve...
DEREK RYDALL
Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Qua...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...
MARTHA GRAHAM
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
TONY-PAUL DE VISSAGE
First they don’t understand what they ought to understand; then they make others understand what t...
ANUJ SOMANY
I want people to learn something they didn't know, ... We hope people have fun and learn about our c...
DOROTHY PARKER
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them th...
THOMAS HARDY
“Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. ...
CARLOS CASTANEDA
I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the ...
QUAVO
Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone but hang me if I don’t believe that some women could live...
JOSEPH CONRAD
A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hea...
DONNA TARTT
I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.
JOE MORGAN
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get conf...
GENE ROBINSON
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even underst...
B.F. SKINNER
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes...
WARREN BENNIS
Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get ...
GENE ROBINSON
You don’t choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.
HEATHER BABCOCK
The Muslim nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, where America is fighting two wars, are opposed to homos...
SEN GARY NODLER
Power is the by-product of understanding.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to ...
WILLIAM LAW
Prejudice against certain groups can come from the home. They learn by hearing their parents. If par...
KATHLEEN BREHONY PH
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just...
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just...
ANATOLE FRANCE
One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS
Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by p...
ANDREW WEIL
I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know.
Satisfying the NEED T...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN
There are two reasons why some people don’t mind their own business. One is that they have no mind...
VIKRANT PARSAI
Most people make it difficult to understand with their lifestyle & stand especially to a helping han...
ANUJ SOMANY
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
PAULO COELHO
People who don’t follow their hearts are causing a great disservice to themselves, to the world, a...
KAILIN GOW
I learn something different every time I go out. Also I get great enjoyment seeing people learn thin...
JAY LOWE
People with learning disabilities learn differently, obviously. Does that mean the way that they lea...
JOANNE DUMM
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the cont...
SUGATA MITRA
Our corners were way too soft early. I don't know if they were intimidated by their speed or intimid...
DAVID GIBBS
Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldie...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER
People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so ...
ARUNDHATI ROY
Having wisdom and knowledge is ineffective if you don’t have understanding
TYREL D. LINING
Stupid people don’t always know that they’re stupid. They might be aware that something is wrong...
JONAS KARLSSON
Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don’t know how to use it?’
Not me, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
During an argument or debate, most people don't listen with the intent to learn something, they list...
DONALD LYNN FROST
Best way to learn is by reflecting and emulating.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interd...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midni...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Recognizing their song is a great diagnostic, but it's difficult to learn. I've been trying for year...
BRIAN SHOVERS
It’s just... everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be...
RAINBOW ROWELL
In this movie you never know what you get and you can't judge people by the way they look and act. Y...
JUDE HAGIN
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such ...
JIM HARRISON
They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER
Never care what other people think of you. You are master of your own ship of life & move ahead of y...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Some people don’t believe in borders and some people don’t believe in other people’s borders.
KEN O. ELDIB
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

More Richard Feynman

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature canno...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live n...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner pos...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some ot...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot b...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
(I) once asked Richard Feynman whether he thought of mathematics and, by extension, the laws of phys...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? Our poets do not write about it; our arti...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at th...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. H...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstrac...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things tha...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really con...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion....
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so f...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your sa...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Nobody understands quantum theory.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious d...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
no respect whatsoever for authority.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics
RICHARD FEYNMAN
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I learned from her [his mother] that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly eve...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax
RICHARD FEYNMAN
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Electrons, when they were first discovered, behaved exactly like particles or bullets, very simply. ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contributio...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You got to learn everything anyway, so which is first, is not essential.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneous...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feyn...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The first person you should be careful not to fool is yourself. Because you are the easiest person t...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some ot...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There were a lot of fools at that conference—pompous fools—and pompous fools drive me up the wal...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do t...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
How much do you value life?” “Sixty-four.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
the whole problem of discovering what was the matter, and figuring out what you have to do to fix it...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronoun...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. B...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and tha...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic ch...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
When I tried to show him how an electromagnet works by making a little coil of wire and hanging a na...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world
RICHARD FEYNMAN
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You have to have absolute confidence. Keep right on going, and nothing will happen.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman. I remember asking him ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emoti...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I learned from her that every woman is worried
about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
– and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and tha...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another wa...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people an...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what se...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it d...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing i...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they ar...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about w...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool fo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind o...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, mi...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot b...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they lear...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn'...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is unifor...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it d...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the co...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?'...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is i...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric r...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the at...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so d...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having t...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same ki...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth,...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the m...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathema...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discu...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks comple...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignmen...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe n...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and ch...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so ma...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is o...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the gr...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serio...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of sc...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, y...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 's...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of phy...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoreti...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but the...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new p...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advan...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world a...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn&#...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be re...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and i...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off o...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real probl...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry abo...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and ...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Sw...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON
Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH
Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH