The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket. Richard P. Feynman More Quotes by Richard P. Feynman More Quotes From Richard P. Feynman I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work. Richard P. Feynman disregard my-own can-do The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it. Richard P. Feynman female understanding mind The exception tests the rule. Richard P. Feynman exception-to-the-rule exception tests I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! Richard P. Feynman imagination men thinking There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess. Richard P. Feynman physicist imagine law Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. Richard P. Feynman mathematics real interesting Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea. Richard P. Feynman sole judging ideas Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations. Richard P. Feynman process world ideas When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. Richard P. Feynman overlooked difficulty wells Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it. Richard P. Feynman care doe What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them? Richard P. Feynman atoms want way There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. Richard P. Feynman ocean space energy It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions. Richard P. Feynman existence statistics mind What I can't create I don't understand Richard P. Feynman computer-language computer-programming programming-languages That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. Richard P. Feynman rope wish science The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. Richard P. Feynman reflection desire science I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good. Richard P. Feynman be-good thinking The same equations have the same solutions Richard P. Feynman equations solutions [B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. Richard P. Feynman poverty satisfied needs Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. Richard P. Feynman ignorance children people
