642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.