(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?, Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And that's what she did

— Richard Feynman

Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory.

— Richard Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

— Richard Feynman

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

— Richard Feynman

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.

— Richard Feynman

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

— Richard Feynman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

— Richard Feynman

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

— Richard Feynman

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

— Richard Feynman

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.

— Richard Feynman