Books:
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
- QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
- Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics
- The Character of Physical Law
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman
Podcast:
Videos:
Quotes:
- “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
- “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
- “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”
- “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
- “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”
- “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
- “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
- “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
- “The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
- “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
- “Physics isn’t the most important thing. Love is.”
- “We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”