Richard P. Feynman Quotes

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

I think doubt is a very healthy way to live.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.