Richard Feynman Learning Quotes

#1. I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Richard Feynman

#2. Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

Emilia Fox

#3. Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.

Zinedine Zidane

#4. Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal ...

Henry David Thoreau

#5. (That saying about how God gives special needs children to special moms is crap. He gives special kids to moms who are already crazy themselves.)

Tami Lynn Tate

#6. When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.

Richard P. Feynman

#7. Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Richard Feynman

#8. A scientist is never certain ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

Richard P. Feynman

#9. I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

Michael Sheen

#10. A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Criss Jami

#11. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. I'm in the woods with Dr. Doolittle.

Joe Teti

#13. Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

Richard P. Feynman

#14. Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

Richard P. Feynman

#15. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Edmund Burke

#16. Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Laozi

#17. That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.

Richard Feynman

#18. We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

Richard P. Feynman

#19. Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

Philip Schaff

#20. It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

Charles Dickens

#21. Overall is nothing... just nothing... overall = chaos... but looked from little near overall is little chaos by itself by it's own meaning.

Deyth Banger

#22. The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is that you occasionally schedule your life to stay home with it.

Derek Thompson

#23. When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

Richard P. Feynman

#24. (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 thats what she did

Richard Feynman