Richard P. Feynman Quotes

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

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

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

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

People die when curiosity goes.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Doubt grows with knowledge.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.