About Richard Feynman

Nobel Prize winning physicist, teacher and author known for quantum electrodynamics. (1918-1988)

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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)
• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
• 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

• 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
• They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.Confucius

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