About Richard Feynman

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

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• 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)
• 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)

More quotes on creativity and innovation

• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.Albert Einstein
• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.Albert Einstein
• I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
• Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.Thomas Edison

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