We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.
Richard P. FeynmanAgnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
Richard P. FeynmanThe basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Richard P. FeynmanDoubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.
Richard P. FeynmanOrdinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Richard P. Feynman