Posts tagged “Richard Feynman”

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird … So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard P. Feynman

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

Stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
Richard P. Feynman

There is pleasure in recognising old things from a new viewpoint.
Richard P. Feynman

One thing is that I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs, in different degrees of certainty, about different things. But I’m not absolutely sure of anything and of many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, if I can’t figure it out, then I go onto something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.
Richard P. Feynman

I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)