642 Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

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!

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone.

This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.