Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Confidence, Powerful

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

• Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mistake, Ends, Courses

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.173, Princeton University Press

• I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mistake, Mean, Fool

• It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mistake, Thinking, Arrows

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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