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Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel prize.
Richard Feynman1918–1988statement (c. 1965), quoted in “An irreverent best-seller by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gives nerds a good name”, People Magazine (22 July 1985)
- Comedy
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Richard Feynman1918–1988The Value of Science (1955)
- Knowledge
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
Richard Feynman1918–1988The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 6, “Probability and Uncertainty — the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature,” p. 127-128
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. J. P. Richter, I: Prolegomena
- Reading
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
Willa Cather1873–1947Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Book VII, Ch. 4
- Nature
Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow ‘scientific’ bounds.
William James1842–1910The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lecture XX, “Conclusions”
I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can’t stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Bennington College address (1970)
- War & Peace
Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.
Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827Letter to Emilie, July 17, 1812.
- Art
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Imagined Worlds (1997)
- Nature
An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1: In Praise of Diversity
- Pride
There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020The Scientist As Rebel (2006), Part I: Contemporary Issues in Science, Ch. 1: “The Scientist as Rebel”
Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899“The Gods” (1876) as published in The Gods and Other Lectures (1879)
- Happiness
Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Nobel lecture (1989)
- Nature
- War & Peace
My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (2005)
- Religion
What I stand for
is what I stand on.
Wendell Berry1934–2026“Below” in A Part (1980)
- Character
- Nature