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

— Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)

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.”

“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.”

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”

“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”

“His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”

“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: for wit is news only to ignorance.”

“Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.”