Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

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

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Tim Cleland

This was one of the toughest, if not the toughest, fields we've had.

Ron Atkinson

For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.

Troy Polamalu

On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

William James

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

Sara Sheridan

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

W. Richard Stevens

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Robert Southey

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Marshall McLuhan

Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

Martin Fleischmann

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Marshall McLuhan

I do not explain, I explore.

Poul Anderson

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

John Cage

My work became an exploration of non-intention.

Duane G. Carey

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.