"I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax"
- Richard Feynman
"Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how s..."
"You can't fool nature."
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!"
"Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these ..."
"First of all there is matter—and, remarkably enough, all matter is the same. The matter of which the stars are made is known to be the same as the matter on the earth...The same kinds of atoms appear ..."
"…the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
"If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a ..."
"I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value."