Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Taylor

We can do science at every step of the way (during the project's expansion).

Richard P. Feynman

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Richard P. Feynman

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Richard P. Feynman

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

Richard P. Feynman

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

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

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Robert Crandall

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Richard P. Feynman

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Richard Dawkins

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Richelle Mead

I find prostitutes vastly important.

Richelle Mead

Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven’t changed.

Richard Bach

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

Richard Bach

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Ruben Blades

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

John Neumann

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All mathematics is tautology.

Paul Erdos

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

Lewis Carroll

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

Gabriel Marcel

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.