Richard P. Feynman Quotes

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

People like to be moved, that's why they're here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

Be it in school, society, or college, I just wanted to be on stage and used to love performing.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

The court dramas shown in films and TV are often superficial. They should have a gripping storyline, which can keep the audience hooked.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

ʺWe need someone to get the roomʹs attention,ʺ I said. ʺSomeone not afraid to make a spectacle—I mean, besides me, of course.ʺ

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.