Richard Feynman
10 quotes
“On the Philosophical Problems in Quantizing Macroscopic Objects”
“Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.”
“New Textbooks for the”
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe , this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil”
“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure”
“The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things. letter to Robert Bacher (6 April 1950), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick , p. 278”
“interview with Sylvan S. Schweber, 13 November 1984, published in QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (1994) by Silvan S. Schweber, p. 436”
“I had too much stuff. My machines came from too far away. Reflecting on the failure of his presentation at the "Pocono Conference" of 30 March”
“Principles You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction. note (c. 1948), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick , p. 5”
“We scientists are clever”