Quote

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

Richard P. Feynman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard P. Feynman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 11
Died: 1988
Died: February 15
Inventor
Percussionist
Physicist
Politician
Quantum Physicist
Science Communicator
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
Far Rockaway
New York
Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
Ofey
Honest
Easiest
Easy
Conventional
Persons
Scientists
Person
Principle
Firsts
Scientist
First
Careful
Must
Fool
Way
Principles
Fooled

More quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Image
Since then I never pay attention to anything by experts. I calculate everything myself.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
Our poets do not write about it our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
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. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,How can I read it?,Its so hard. I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did
Richard P. Feynman
Image
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
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
Image
I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
All we know so far is what doesn't work.
Richard P. Feynman