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If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These things are kind of fun and delightful. It doesn't do any harm to think them over again. Is there a better way to present them? The elementary things are easy to think about; if you can't think of a new thought, no harm done; what you thought about it before is good enough for the class. If you do think of something new, you're rather pleased that you have a new way of looking at it. The questions of the students are often the source of new research. They often ask profound questions that I've thought about at times and then given up on, so to speak, for a while. It wouldn't do me any harm to think about them again and see if I can go any further now. The students may not be able to see the thing I want to answer, or the subtleties I want to think about, but they remind me of a problem by asking questions in the neighborhood of that problem. It's not so easy to remind yourself of these things.

By Richard Feynman
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results,but that's not why we do it.

By Richard Feynman
Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. The value of science remains unsung by singers: you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age.

By Richard Feynman
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

By Richard Feynman
But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

By Richard Feynman
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile.

By Richard Feynman
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

By Richard Feynman
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

By Richard Feynman
There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

By Richard Feynman
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

By Richard Feynman
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.

By Richard Feynman
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

By Richard Feynman
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

By Richard Feynman
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next

By Richard Feynman
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

By Richard Feynman
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

By Richard Feynman
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

By Richard Feynman
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

By Richard Feynman
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

By Richard Feynman
Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.

By Richard Feynman
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

By Richard Feynman
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

By Richard Feynman
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

By Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

By Richard Feynman