Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynmanwas an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth11 May 1918
CountryUnited States of America
The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things
Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.
The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.
Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.
I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.
Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.
Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.
The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off chance that it is in another direction — a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory — who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unfashionable point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.
I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
What I can't create I don't understand
There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.
Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.