{"author":"Richard Feynman","author_id":"Richard+Feynman","total_quotes":80,"quotes":[{"text":"You can't fool nature.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["nature"],"id":2415,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["history","science"],"id":2579,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"The laws of physics could be like an onion, with new laws becoming operational as we probe new scales. We simply don't know!","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["physics"],"id":5401,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope, when it will fully appreciated that the power of governments should be limited; that governments ought not to be empowered to decide the validity of scientific theories, that this is a ridiculous thing for them to try to do; that they are not to decide the description of history or of economic theory or of philosophy.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["government","science"],"id":21677,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I thought of how we teach physics: We have so many techniques - so many mathematical methods - that we never stop telling the students how to do things. On the other hand, the drawing teacher is afraid to tell you anything. If your lines are very heavy, the teacher can't say, 'Your lines are too heavy.' because *some* artist has figured out a way of making great pictures using heavy lines. The teacher doesn't want to push you in some particular direction. So the drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["drawing","physics","richard-feynman","teaching"],"id":31577,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["feynman","knowing","physics","science","unknown"],"id":41787,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["humor","inspirational","philosophy-of-science","science"],"id":54585,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["thought-provoking"],"id":59405,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I can reconstruct it all again. I am never quite sure of where I am supposed to begin or where I am supposed to end. I just remember enough all the time so that as the memory fades and some of the pieces fall out I can put the thing back together again every day.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["science","thoughts"],"id":60683,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"},{"text":"(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,'How can I read it?,Its so hard.' I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did.","author":"Richard Feynman","tags":["learning-process","learning-to-read","richard-feynmann","sense-of-humor","studying","understand"],"id":74359,"author_id":"Richard+Feynman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}