Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. Richard P. Feynman approximatecomputercope Change image and share on social
I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew. Richard P. Feynman conundrumcrazydamn Change image and share on social
The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work. Richard P. Feynman actionalamosbomb share on social
Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were. Richard P. Feynman energylawrelativity Change image and share on social
Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical. Richard P. Feynman analyzebohrcompletely share on social
I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things. Richard P. Feynman afraidathleticbaseball share on social
Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art. Richard P. Feynman artbegindraw Change image and share on social
If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before. Richard P. Feynman expandexperienceintegration share on social
I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people. Richard P. Feynman caltechcarldepartment share on social
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. Richard P. Feynman approximationcompletefact share on social