642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the “raindrops” are the same.

It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and that its quantitative evaluation is subject to change as we obtain more information.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

But if you’ve ever worked with computers, you understand the disease – the delight in being able to see how much you can do.

I don’t have to be good because they think I’m going to be good.

I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you’ve told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

So the drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.