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Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".

Quotes from Richard Feynman

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

—Richard Feynman

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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.

—Richard Feynman

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

—Richard Feynman

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

—Richard Feynman

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

—Richard Feynman

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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

—Richard Feynman

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

—Richard Feynman

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

—Richard Feynman

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

—Richard Feynman

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

—Richard Feynman

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

—Richard Feynman

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

—Richard Feynman

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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

—Richard Feynman