642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Nature’s imagination far surpasses our own.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.

Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.

But logic is not all, one needs one’s heart to follow an idea.

Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.

I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it’s possible or not but whether it’s going on or not.

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

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won’t understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell ‘friend,’ I say to them that something’s the matter with the way you spell friend.