Richard Feynman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.
-- James Gleick -
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
-- Leonard Susskind -
The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'
-- Charles Hard Townes