642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

I said, “There’s a long tradition behind life in India that comes from a religion and philosophy that is thousands of years old. And although these people are not in India, they still pass on those traditions about what’s important in life – trying to build for the future and supporting their children in the effort – which have come down to them for centuries.

Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald’s. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, “Because I am Feynman!” The young man went, “Ahhhhh!”

Don’t pay attention to “authorities,” think for yourself.

Strange! I don’t understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart’s desire.

Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, “I am going to tell you something that you will never forget.” And then he said, “To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out.