Prof. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

A scientist is never certain.

If you think you can, you may.
If you think you can't, you're right.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s.

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

If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let

Johnny von Neumann was the greatest mathematician around.

The easiest person to fool is yourself.

Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning.

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

Make critical thinking a foundational subject in education. Teach students how to think critically, analyze information, and discern fact from fiction using scientific methods, creating a more discerning and informed society.

Be humble. Be teachable. The universe is bigger than your view of the universe. There's always room for a new idea.

Do more math.

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

- Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897)

I'm not going to simplify it, I'm going to tell you what it really is like, and I hope you accept nature as she is - absurd.

You don't like it? Go find another Universe!

It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.

The first rule of learning is to admit you don’t know. The second rule is to never stop asking why.

Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings.

We often overlook the beauty of simplicity. Some of the most profound insights are found in the elegant and uncomplicated.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.

- J. von Neumann

When your result looks “too perfect,” that’s when you should worry most.

The fastest way to learn is to try, fail, and write down why you failed.

You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.

There are two rules in life:

1) Never give out all the information.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement,

Nature is quantum mechanical.

You’re not learning if you’re not confused half the time.

There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.