Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• 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

• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

• It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Freedom, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The Value of Science". Public address at the National Academy of Sciences, published in "What Do You Care What Other People Think" (1988), Autumn 1955.

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

  Richard P. Feynman

  Responsibility, Unreasonable, Human Race

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

• You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, [an integrity] that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Lying, Responsibility

• It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Responsibility, Hands, People

  "What Do You Care What Other People Think". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1988.

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