Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist". Book by Richard Feynman, 1999.

• 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 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

• I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Thinking, Good Things

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.222, Princeton University Press

• Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Doubt, Quality

• The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humility, Pride, Men

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.120, Princeton University Press

• Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Momentum, Measurement

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 3 for tablets”, Basic Books

• The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Helping Others, Ideas, Giving

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.132, Princeton University Press

• Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Doubt, Important, Fearful

• Science is of value because it can produce something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Produce, Values

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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