Richard P. Feynman Quotes

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

I'm a firm believer in science.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

Science demands patience.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.