642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

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

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to 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.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.