Tag: Richard P. Feynman
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If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!
Richard P. Feynman
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Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
Richard P. Feynman
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The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.
Richard P. Feynman
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Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
Richard P. Feynman
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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!
Richard P. Feynman
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
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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.
Richard P. Feynman
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It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
Richard P. Feynman
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Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter.
Richard P. Feynman
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Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.
Richard P. Feynman