Richard Feynman

"I would rather be a beginner at something wonderful than a master at something boring."

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."

"Specializing too early is a waste of human potential."

"There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view of physics."

"You see, one thing is I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing."

"The effort to achieve high precision exposes the inadequacies of our concepts."

"Our responsibility is to do what we can, with what we have, where we are."

"If you thought that science was certain, well, that is just an error on your part."

"For success, what matters is not the size of your effort but the quality of it."

"Draw conclusions from what you observe, not from what you expect to observe."

"Make sure you have a doubt in your mind before proceeding further."

"If we are in a hurry and do not discuss things carefully, we miss the reality."

"I would rather have questions I cannot answer than answers I cannot question."

"All of the stuff is atoms, except the emotion."

"The problem is how do we get smart people to work on the dumb problem."

"One cannot proceed blindly, you must know where you are going."

"Anything that is complicated is also interesting."

"The key to good teaching is to recognize that students are not empty vessels."

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts."

"Never say never, and never say always."

"It does not make a difference how beautiful your guess is, how smart you are or what your name is."

"Simplicity does not precede complexity but follows it."

"The apparent nature of reality changes when we shift perspective."

"It is essential to understand what you are doing rather than blindly following formulas."

"You have to trust in something, your gut, karma, destiny or whatever."

"The most important tool of theoretical physics is the wastebasket."

"Do not be fooled by coincidence; seek the underlying patterns."

"Innovation requires having access to the best thinking and the ability to understand it."

"When you have a problem, first make sure you understand what the problem is asking."