The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard P. Feynman easyfoolperson Change image and share on social
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean. Richard P. Feynman advanceamountconsiderable share on social
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense. Richard P. Feynman commonfigurelearn Change image and share on social
We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all. Richard P. Feynman changefactimportant share on social
It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another. Richard P. Feynman experimenterobjectivelyobservation Change image and share on social
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Richard P. Feynman averageexplainnobel Change image and share on social
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'. Richard P. Feynman basicbasicallybasis share on social
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. Richard P. Feynman calculusencyclopediaimportant share on social
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman chemistelectrodynamicexception Change image and share on social
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. Richard P. Feynman alleyavoidblind share on social
