I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
RF
Richard FeynmanWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
About Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize winning physicist, teacher and author known for quantum electrodynamics. (1918-1988)
More from Richard Feynman
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.'Cargo Cult Science', Caltech commencement address (1974)
- What I cannot create, I do not understand.Written on his Caltech blackboard (1988)
- Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.Letter to J. M. Szabados (1965), in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (2005)
- I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, BBC interview (1981)
- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.Rogers Commission Report on the Challenger disaster, Appendix F (1986)
- You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
More quotes on learning and wisdom
- Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.Plato
- The unexamined life is not worth living for men.Socrates
- Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.Socrates
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.Confucius
- When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
- When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.Confucius
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