Richard P. Feynman Quotes

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

The Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the Author of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.