Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn't make sense.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

Science is the only true guide in life.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system.