Richard P. Feynman Quotes

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

I love change, I need it.

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.

In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.

There are a few chances in life where you get to take a different road. I think it's important to stay creative, look at the moment, and look at the future.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

Don't be afraid to change the model.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.