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Richard Feynman Quotes (71 quotes)
 | “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?” ―Richard Feynman Source/Notes: Mainly mechanics, radiation, and heat (1963 edition), Addison Wesley Publishing Company - ISBN: 9780201510034 |
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| “Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.” ―Richard Feynman Source/Notes: The Character of Physical Law (1965) |
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| “If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.” ―Richard Feynman Source/Notes: People (22 July 1985) |
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| “The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.” ―Richard Feynman Source/Notes: Reviewing the first edition of The Quantum Universe (1987) |
| Source/Notes: On his blackboard at time of death in 1988; as quoted in The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking |
| “We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it.” ―Richard Feynman Source/Notes: Undated personal note, quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick |
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Richard Feynman
Born: May 11, 1918
Died: February 15, 1988 (aged 69)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Physicist
Bio: Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics.
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