Quotes by Richard Feynman

“Im smart enough to know that Im dumb.”

“It doesnt matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesnt matter how smart you are. If it doesnt agree with experiment, its wrong”

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”

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

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

“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldnt have been worth the Nobel Prize.”

“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. Its a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you play with them!”

“The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another”

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”

“Nobody understands quantum theory.”

“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have”

“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

“Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”

“I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.”

“I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics”

“Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”