642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

The two of you—father and son—should take walks in the evening and talk about this and that. Because his father is a wise man, and the son I think is wise too for they have the same opinions I had when I was a father and when I was a son too. These don't exactly agree, of course, but the deeper wisdom of the older man will grow out of the concentrated energetic attention of the younger. Patience.

I can live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Astronomy is older than physics. In fact, it got physics started by showing the beautiful simplicity of the motion of the stars and planets, the understanding of which was the beginning of physics. But the most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes.

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!

The two of you — father and son— should take walks in the evening and talk (without purpose or routes) about this and that.

My father left me his words. From them I remember both his outlook on life and his voice, positive, and clear. He was someone who didn't worry about small problems. His advice here—leave it; let it go— is inspiring.

We're so used to circumstances in which these electrical phenomena are all canceled out, everything is sort of neutral, where pushing and pulling is sort of dull, but nature has these wonderful things: magnetic forces and electrical forces.