When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
Richard P. FeynmanIf a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
Richard P. FeynmanWhen you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.
Richard P. FeynmanThe problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
Richard P. FeynmanI don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Richard P. FeynmanThe game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?
Richard P. Feynman