The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
Richard P. FeynmanYou say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself โ it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naรฏve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
Richard P. FeynmanScientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad โ but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Richard P. FeynmanI learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
Richard P. FeynmanWe absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified โ how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really donโt know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.
Richard P. Feynman