Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

Scouting is like CIA work and investigative work. You create a lot of stuff and try a lot of stuff. Some works and some doesn't. I try to get creative.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying. Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

What I can't create I don't understand

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.