“Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!”

— Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I, 1964

About Richard Feynman

1918 – 1988

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (1965).

“One has to have the imagination to think of something that has never been seen before, never been heard of before.”

“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”

“Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”

“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”

“Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue.”

“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”

“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”