“If you ask naive but relevant questions, then almost immediately the person doesn't know the answer, if he is an honest man.”— Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All, Lecture III, "This Unscientific Age," 1963 lectures, pub. 1999Share
“One has to have the imagination to think of something that has never been seen before, never been heard of before.”— Richard FeynmanShare
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”— Richard FeynmanShare
“Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.”— Richard FeynmanShare
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”— William ShakespeareShare
“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.”— Albert EinsteinShare
