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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About Richard Feynman

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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".

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

—Richard Feynman

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

—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

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

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

—Richard Feynman

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

—Sir Arthur Eddington

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