Richard Feynman

Physics American 1918 – 1988 323 quotes

Nobel laureate known for path integrals and Feynman diagrams

Quotes by Richard Feynman

Diagrams are a way to visualize interactions.

Feynman Diagrams 1948

The path integral formulation sums over all possible histories.

Paper 1948

QED is the jewel of physics.

Nobel Lecture 1965

Renormalization removes infinities.

Paper 1948

The positron is the antiparticle of the electron.

Thesis 1940

Nanotechnology will change everything.

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom 1959

Computers will one day be small enough to swallow.

Speech 1959

The biological example of writing information down in a small space is DNA.

Speech 1959

We can arrange the atoms the way we want; the new generation of computers will be so small.

Speech 1959

The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom.

Speech 1959

What I cannot create, I do not understand. Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.

Notebook 1960

The value of science is not in the answers it provides, but in the questions it raises.

Interview 1981

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! 1985

I never studied art, but I love to draw.

Autobiography 1985

The drums are my escape from physics.

Interview 1985

Life is full of surprises, and that's what makes it interesting.

What Do You Care What Other People Think? 1985

The O-ring failed because of the cold.

Challenger Investigation 1986

I dipped the O-ring in ice water and it didn't bounce back.

Press Conference 1986

Reality must take precedence over public relations.

Rogers Commission 1986

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

Appendix F 1986