642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.

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

Since then I never pay attention to anything by “experts”. I calculate everything myself.

If you can’t explain something to a first year student, then you haven’t really understood .

All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t,’ – which is just another way of saying that you can’t.

When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his “bias” was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, “Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!”

The exception proves that the rule is wrong.” That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher’s ideals are.

I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.