Richard Feynman

The world is full of people who are trying to figure out what's going on, and they're all wrong.

I feel that if a man has a problem, it's not solved unless he understands it.

I was a little bit of a maverick.

The game is to find out how nature works.

If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.

I took the wavicles—the little particles of waves—and put them in a box.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I was born with an ability to do mathematics, which is what they want in physics. I can think of problems and solve them. So what? I'm not very good at anything else. I can't dance, I can't sing, I can't tell jokes very well, I'm not a good administrator, I can't do anything else. I'm just a physicist.

I would like to add a third possibility, that it might be that, when we die, we just die, and that's the end of it.

I have no responsibility to be like what other people expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. I'm a scientist.

Physicists are like little children, they want to know how the world works. But they're not content to just wonder. They want to open up the toy and see what's inside.

When I was in high school, I'd read about the great scientists and I was ashamed that I was not a great scientist. I used to think, 'What's the matter with me? I'm not a great scientist.'

The thing that bothers me is that I can tell that the students don't understand. They are taught to remember things, but they don't understand.

I have an attitude that I'm supposed to amuse myself, and I don't have to be serious all the time.

I'm a great believer in the idea that if you don't understand something, you should try to explain it to someone else.

Mathematics is not a science, but a language. It's a tool for science.

To guess what to do, you can't be a scientist unless you have a feel for the numbers.

The thing that I cannot understand is what I cannot create. And I can't create a universe. So I don't understand the universe.

If you're going to be a scientist, you don't need to be a genius. You just need to be able to work hard and be curious.