Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana….

Nature...cannot be fooled!.

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No," I said, "I can't prove it's imposs….

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work..

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to pi….

There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is ….

I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end..

When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many….

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled..

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge i….

For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who….

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on..

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into..

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel t….

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't..

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me ….

It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your si….

If you thought you were trying to find out more about it because you're gonna get an answer to some deep philosophical question...you may be wrong! I….

We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. ….

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best..