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

— Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II, Ch. 20 (1964)

About Richard Feynman

1918 – 1988

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (1965).

“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.”

“Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”

“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature.”

“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.”