Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#cannot #fooled #must #nature #over

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#sex #science

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#inspirational #science #humor

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor #inspirational #success #humor

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#humor #intelligence #mathematics #statistics #education

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#richard-feynmann #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#experience

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#imagination #nature #physics #richard #imagination

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#looks #woman #beauty