"The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life."
- Richard Feynman
"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
- Richard Feynman
"It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another."
- Richard Feynman
"In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself."
- Richard Feynman
"Is science of any value? 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 Feynman
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
- Richard Feynman
"Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention."
- Richard Feynman
"If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it."
- Richard Feynman
"Teach your children early what you learned late."
- Richard Feynman
"It's not the lack of intelligence, it's the lack of focus that is stopping you."
- Richard Feynman
"Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning."
- Richard Feynman
"When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.
It's the same thing when you are stupid."
- Richard Feynman
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
- Richard Feynman
"The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do."
- Richard Feynman
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
- Richard Feynman
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."
- Richard Feynman
"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."
- Richard Feynman
"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."
- Richard Feynman
"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 Feynman
"Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty"
- Richard Feynman
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."