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Quantum Physicist Inspirational Quotes (213)

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[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
Richard P. Feynman
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In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be known with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.
Richard P. Feynman
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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
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We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.
Richard P. Feynman
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If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.
Richard P. Feynman
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I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.
Richard P. Feynman
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As revealed by physics, the truth is so remarkable, so amazing!
Richard P. Feynman
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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
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What did you ASK at school today?
Richard P. Feynman
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I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
Richard P. Feynman
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Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman
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We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true.
Richard P. Feynman
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Richard P. Feynman
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It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.
Richard P. Feynman
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Richard P. Feynman
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Richard P. Feynman
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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
Richard P. Feynman
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Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
Richard P. Feynman
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The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.
Richard P. Feynman
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You do not know anything until you have practiced.
Richard P. Feynman
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
Richard P. Feynman
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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard P. Feynman
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Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.
Richard P. Feynman
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Some people say, How can you live without knowing? I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
Richard P. Feynman
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