I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb. Richard P. Feynman More Quotes by Richard P. Feynman More Quotes From Richard P. Feynman I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is. Richard P. Feynman matter beautiful looks I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal. Richard P. Feynman teaching teacher thinking A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all! Richard P. Feynman glasses wine writing Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough! Richard P. Feynman heart life son When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana. Richard P. Feynman stupid two thinking 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. Richard P. Feynman real imagination science I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Richard P. Feynman understanding inspirational people All mass is interaction. Richard P. Feynman interaction mass Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. Richard P. Feynman spirituality simplicity spiritual I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. Richard P. Feynman good-things life thinking 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. Richard P. Feynman naive philosopher deals It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. Richard P. Feynman ignorance men thinking I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith. Richard P. Feynman attitude order believe There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules. Richard P. Feynman distance finals simple Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. Richard P. Feynman atheism trying way 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. Richard P. Feynman responsibility inspirational science Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show. Richard P. Feynman doubt science thinking Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves Richard P. Feynman lying Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from. Richard P. Feynman atheism understanding religion There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! Richard P. Feynman disease serious play
