Famous Quotes by Richard Feynman

Below are famous quotes by Richard Feynman - US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988).

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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