Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Humility, Acceptance

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

• I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atoms, Cosmology, Universe

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.65, Princeton University Press

• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

• Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Artist, Age

• The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Truth, Science, Simplicity

  "Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life". Book by K. C. Cole, 1985.

• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

• It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheist, Drama, Struggle

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.112, Princeton University Press

• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Two, Chess

• When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Dark, Want

• The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Book, Quantum, Chapters

  "The New Quantum Universe". Book by Anthony J. G. Hey, ‎Tony Hey, ‎Patrick Walters, 1987.

• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

• If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Somewhere Else, Ifs, Universe

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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