Richard P. Feynman Quotes

To understand is to invent.

What I can't create I don't understand

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Children are just little scientists.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

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.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Write about what you want to know.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

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