Richard Feynman Verified Quotes

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.”

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

“Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.”

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.”

“If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it.”

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”