Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

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

If we don’t go, we don’t know.