Ayesha Arora’s Favorite Feynman Quotes

  • For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
  • I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
  • I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
  • If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.
  • The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
  • Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
  • The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
  • The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things…
  • 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.
  • Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?