Richard P. Feynman Quotes

I don't have answers. I have questions.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

It's not like I have all the answers.

I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

I just want people to be able to put on 'American Boyfriend' and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

Do not feel certain of anything.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)