Richard Feynman

I am a man of the cloth, you might say, and my cloth is the universe.

I don't want to be a part of the establishment. I want to be an outsider.

I don't like to be called a genius. I just like to think.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don't know.

I don't care what you think. I care what's true.

When you are a scientist, you are a child. You are always asking 'Why?'

I was scared because of this same thing I was talking about — I'm not so good at this. “The Dean's tea” — it sounded so silly, you know, and high class.

By the way, Professor, you know that paper in which you say those quantities are analogous... Did you know they're proportional?

Oh. That's interesting. (This entire scene is very typical of Dirac. In fact, that is comparatively a lot of words for him to have said to a stranger.)

Fiddling is the answer. Experimenting is fiddling around. It's not an organized program, elegance — it's impossible. I noticed it.

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

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. ... But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that.

This dying is boring.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

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

Yeah, I took the door.

I got a dollar for my patent! I give it to everybody. Result: everybody who has one of these patent because it was easy a lot of people had been sending things in lots of patents. Everybody come down they want their dollar. He starts shelling them out of his pocket then he realizes, it's going to be a hemorrhage.

I just did a crazy guy. You are a crazy guy. You made a deal.