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„Der Trick sind die Idealisierungen. […] Dieses System ähnelt keineswegs dem der Mathematik, in welcher jedes Ding definiert werden kann, und dann wissen wir nicht, wovon wir reden. In der Tat ist es das Herrliche an der Mathematik, dass wir nicht sagen müssen, wovon wir reden. Das Herrliche liegt darin, dass die Gesetze, die Argumente und die Logik unabhängig davon sind, was "es" ist.“

Richard Feynman

Vorlesungen über Physik, Band I, Kap. 12.1 (Übersetzung: Heinz Köhler), Seite 165, Oldenbourg München Wien, 5. Aufl. 2007
Original englisch: "The trick is the idealizations. [...] This system is quite unlike the case of mathematics, in which everything can be defined, and then we do not know what we are talking about. In fact, the glory of mathematics is that we do not have to say what we are talking about. The glory is that the laws, the arguments, and the logic are independent of what 'it' is." - The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Quantum Mechanics. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1965.

„Ein Philosoph hat einmal behaupet: 'Naturwissenschaft setzt notwendig voraus, dass gleiche Umstände immer auch gleiche Auswirkungen haben.' Nun, dem ist nicht so.“

Richard Feynman

Zitiert in Tony Hey und Patrick Walters: Das Quantenuniversum, Spektrum, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-8274-0315-4 Kapitel 2 "Heisenberg und die quantenmechanische Unbestimmtheit" "Seite 33.
Original engl.: "A philosopher once said: 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not." - The Character of Physical Law. A series of lectures recorded by the BBC at Cornell University. BBC 1965. Neuauflage Modern Library 1994

„[Energie]"Es ist wichtig, einzusehen, dass wir in der heutigen Physik nicht wissen, was Energie ist. Wir haben kein Bild davon, dass Energie in kleinen Klumpen definierter Größe vorkommt."“

Richard Feynman

Vorlesungen über Physik, Band I, Kap. 4.1 (Übersetzung: Heinz Köhler), Seite 46, Oldenbourg München Wien, 5. Aufl. 2007
Original engl.: "It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount."

„Mir würde es gar nicht gefallen, zweimal zu sterben. Es ist so langweilig.“

Richard Feynman

Letzte Worte, 15. Februar 1988 - zu seiner Ehefrau, seiner Schwester und seiner Cousine, als er kurz aus einem durch Nierenversagen verursachten Koma erwachte.

Richard Feynman: Zitate auf Englisch

“Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.”

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address " What is Science? http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966), published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

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“We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or to describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.”

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"The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html (11 December 1965)

“The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.”

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letter to Robert Bacher (6 April 1950), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 278

“So we have these wide principles which sweep across all the different laws, and if one takes too seriously its derivations, and feels that this is only valid because this [assumed more fundamental principle] is valid, you cannot understand the interconnections of the different branches of physics. Some day, when physics is complete, then maybe with this kind of argument we'll know all the laws, then we can start with some axioms (and no doubt somebody will figure out a particular way of doing it) and then all the deductions will be made. But while we don't know all the laws, we can use some to make guesses at theorems which extend beyond the proof.”

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Richard Feynman buch The Character of Physical Law

Quelle: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 2, “The Relation of Mathematics to Physics”

“There are many interesting phenomena … which involve a mixture of physical phenomena and physiological processes, and the full appreciation of natural phenomena, as we see them, must go beyond physics in the usual sense. We make no apologies for making these excursions into other fields, because the separation of fields, as we have emphasized, is merely a human convenience, and an unnatural thing. Nature is not interested in our separations, and many of the interesting phenomena bridge the gaps between fields.”

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volume I; lecture 35, "Color Vision"; 35-1 "The human eye"; p. 35-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get "down the drain", into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”

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Richard Feynman buch The Character of Physical Law

Concerning the apparent absurdities of quantum behavior.
chapter 6, “Probability and Uncertainty — the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature,” p. 129
The Character of Physical Law (1965)

“It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.”

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Richard Feynman buch The Character of Physical Law

Quelle: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 1, “The Law of Gravitation,” p. 27: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk&t=37m16s

“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.”

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statement (c. 1965), quoted in " An irreverent best-seller by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gives nerds a good name http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20091337,00.html", People Magazine (22 July 1985)

“We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!". The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking?”

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What do you mean by you?"
volume I; lecture 8, "Motion"; section 8-1, "Description of motion"; p. 8-2
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“It's a great game to try to look at the past, at an unscientific era, look at something there, and say have we got the same thing now, and where is it? So I would like to amuse myself with this game. First, we take witch doctors. The witch doctor says he knows how to cure. There are spirits inside which are trying to get out. … Put a snakeskin on and take quinine from the bark of a tree. The quinine works. He doesn't know he's got the wrong theory of what happens. If I'm in the tribe and I'm sick, I go to the witch doctor. He knows more about it than anyone else. But I keep trying to tell him he doesn't know what he's doing and that someday when people investigate the thing freely and get free of all his complicated ideas they'll learn much better ways of doing it. Who are the witch doctors? Psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, of course.”

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Richard Feynman buch The Meaning of It All

lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
David Goodstein reports http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/feynmaniacs-should-read-this-review-skip-lecture-collection-save-22-simoleons that the entire psychology department walked out in a huff at this point.
The Meaning of It All (1999)

“People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.”

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Richard Feynman buch QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Quelle: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 3

“I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.”

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last words (15 February 1988), according to James Gleick, in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992), p. 438

“The scale of light can be described by numbers — called the frequency — and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light — only the number is different.”

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Richard Feynman buch QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Quelle: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 13

“For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.”

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Richard Feynman buch The Character of Physical Law

Quelle: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 3, “The Great Conservation Principles,” p. 75

“The first one has to do with whether a man knows what he is talking about, whether what he says has some basis or not. And my trick that I use is very easy. If you ask him intelligent questions — that is, penetrating, interested, honest, frank, direct questions on the subject, and no trick questions — then he quickly gets stuck. It is like a child asking naive questions. If you ask naive but relevant questions, then almost immediately the person doesn't know the answer, if he is an honest man.”

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lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
The Meaning of It All (1999)

“If we are to replace standard numerical probability usage with engineering judgment, why do we find such an enormous disparity between the management estimate and the judgment of the engineers? It would appear that, for whatever purpose, be it for internal or external consumption, the management of NASA exaggerates the reliability of its product, to the point of fantasy.”

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Rogers Commission Report (1986)

“It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. … I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them … [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.”

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volume II; lecture 20, "Solution of Maxwell's Equations in Free Space"; section 20-3, "Scientific imagination"; p. 20-9 to 20-10
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.”

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Richard Feynman buch The Character of Physical Law

Quelle: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 1, “The Law of Gravitation,” p. 15: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk&t=12m45s

“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth… How far from here was 34th street?… All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless. But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”

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On his emotional reaction after the first uses of the atomic bomb.
Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 136
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“[John] von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!”

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Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 132
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected. … The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.””

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volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-1, "Introduction"; p. 1-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“There are those who are going to be disappointed when no life is found on other planets. Not I — I want to be reminded and delighted and surprised once again, through interplanetary exploration, with the infinite variety and novelty of phenomena that can be generated from such simple principles. The test of science is its ability to predict. Had you never visited the earth, could you predict the thunderstorms, the volcanoes, the ocean waves, the auroras, and the colorful sunset? A salutary lesson it will be when we learn of all that goes on on each of those dead planets — those eight or ten balls, each agglomerated from the same dust cloud and each obeying exactly the same laws of physics.”

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volume II; lecture 41, "The Flow of Wet Water"; section 41-6, "Couette flow"; p. 41-12
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!”

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Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Is Electricity Fire?", p. 283
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.”

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quoted in Lawrence M. Krauss, Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed (1993), p. 27

“I have to understand the world, you see.”

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Part 4: "From Cornell to Caltech, With A Touch of Brazil", "Certainly, Mr. Big!", p. 231
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“What do we mean by “understanding” something? We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics. Even if we knew every rule, however, we might not be able to understand why a particular move is made in the game, merely because it is too complicated and our minds are limited. If you play chess you must know that it is easy to learn all the rules, and yet it is often very hard to select the best move or to understand why a player moves as he does. So it is in nature, only much more so.”

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volume I; lecture 2, "Basic Physics"; section 2-1, "Introduction"; p. 2-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“Jiry, don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.”

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Quelle: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 252, last words to his artist friend Jirayr Zorthian, as recalled by Zorthian in "No Ordinary Genius" (1993): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw&t=1h33m22s