Richard P. Feynman Quotes

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

One must be an inventor to read well.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.