Richard Feynman Quotes

“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.”

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

“There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

“Don't pay attention to 'authorities,' think for yourself.”