Richard Feynman Quotes

Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman quote.

Nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
— Richard Feynman The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

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Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there. - Richard Feynman quote.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
— Richard Feynman

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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. - Richard Feynman quote.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
— Richard Feynman “What Do You Care What Other People Think”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman quote.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman quote.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman

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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
— Richard Feynman The Character of Physical Law: The 1964 Messenger Lectures

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The game I play [as a scientist] is a very interesting one.  It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics.
— Richard Feynman No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman

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