Richard P. Feynman Quotes

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

I like cutting through complexity and trying to get to the kernel of an idea.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.