I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‘If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.’ Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
Working out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself. Richard P. Feynman Read Quote
