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Richard P. Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

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Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

Against, Ideas, Learning, Measured, Process, World

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things

Dynamic, Jiggling, Mess, Things, World

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.

Atheism, Hard, Possibly, Religion, Understanding

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.

Desire, Nobody, Reflection, Results, Science

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

Bomb, Clever, Men, Scientists, Thinking

So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Equations, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Law, Like, Physics

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

Conditions, Next, Physicists, Physics, Say, Thinking

(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

Asking, Book, Letters, Understand, Working, Wrote

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution. " It's just psychological.

Anywhere, Believe, Contribution, Ideas, Teaching

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.

Dumb, Enough, Grace, Smart

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Guy, People, Right, Terrible, Trying, Wonderful

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

Century, Event, Judged, Law, War, Years

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

Artist, Jupiter, Men, Past, Poets, Spinning

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Away, Night, Science, See, Stars

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Discovery, Entire, Observed, Somewhere Else, View, Views

I don't believe I can really do without teaching.

Believe, Don'T Believe, Teaching

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Human Race, Improve, Learn, Pass, Responsibility, Unreasonable

You do not know anything until you have practiced.

Know, Knows, Practiced

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Age, Discoveries, Discovery, Lucky

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Language, Like, Logic, Plus, Reasoning, Tools

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