Quote

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

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
Life
Teach
Situation
Invented
Happy
Accept
Keep
Students
Find
Teaching
Going
Accepting
Never
Position
Would
Somebody

More quotes by Richard P. Feynman

Image
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
Image
All mass is interaction.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
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
Image
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard P. Feynman
Image
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
Image
I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.
Richard P. Feynman
Image
An ordinary fool isn't a faker an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Richard P. Feynman
Image
Computer science is not as old as physics it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!
Richard P. Feynman