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Richard Phillips Feynman byl americký fyzik, který patřil k největším fyzikům 20. století.

✵ 11. květen 1918 – 15. únor 1988   •   Další jména Richard Feynman Philips, Richard Phillips Feynman, Ричард Филлипс Фейнман
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Richard Feynman nejznámější citáty

„Fyzikální zákony platí i tam, kam jsme se ještě nedívali.“

Zdroj: [Grygar, Jiří, Jiří Grygar, Vesmír, jaký je: současná kosmologie (téměř) pro každého, 1, Mladá fronta, Praha, 1997, 217, Kolumbus, 135, 12, 80-204-0637-9]

Richard Feynman: Zamilované citáty

Richard Feynman citáty a výroky

„Nechtěl bych umírat dvakrát. Je to tak nudné.“

poslední slova

„Věda je hodně podobná sexu. Někdy z ní vzejde něco užitečného, ale to není ten jediný důvod, proč ji děláme.“

Zdroj: [Pincott, Jena, Mají muži radši blondýnky?: láska, sex a přitažlivost, Nicolle Knapová, Dobrovský s.r.o., Praha, 2017, 296, Knihy Omega, Úvod, 9, 978-80-7390-460-9]

„Ty knihy prostě nestály za nic. Byly špatné, byly odfláknuté. Snažily se být exaktní, ale používaly příkladů, které byly skoro správné, ale vždycky na nich byly nějaké mouchy. Definice nebyly přesné. Všechno bylo trochu mnohoznačné – autoři nebyli dost chytří na to, aby chápali, co „přesnost“ znamená. Jen ji předstírali. Vykládali něco, čemu nerozuměli a co bylo v dané chvíli dítěti úplně k ničemu.“

Psal to někdo, kdo pořádně nevěděl, o čem mluví, takže to bylo vždycky trochu špatně! A jak dobře učit podle knížek napsanými lidmi, kteří pořádně nerozumějí tomu, o čem mluví, to nedovedu pochopit. Nevím proč, ale ty knížky byly mizerné; MIZERNÉ PO VŠECH STRÁNKÁCH! Něco vypadalo na první pohled dobře, a pak mě z toho jímal děs. A takhle to vypadalo se všemi těmi knihami. Vykládaly o věcech, které byly neužitečné, zmatené a matoucí, mnohoznačné a částečně nesprávné.
Dílo, To nemyslíte vážně, pane Feynmane!

Richard Feynman: Citáty anglicky

“The same equations have the same solutions”

volume II; lecture 12, "Electrostatic Analogs"; p. 12-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“Suppose two politicians are running for president, and one goes through the farm section and is asked, "What are you going to do about the farm question?" And he knows right away - bang, bang, bang. Now he goes to the next campaigner who comes through. "What are you going to do on the farm problem?" "Well, I don't know. I used to be a general, and I don't know anything about farming. But it seems to me it must be a very difficult problem, because for twelve, fifteen, twenty years people have been struggling with it, and people say that they know how to solve the farm problem. And it must be a hard problem. So the way I intend to solve the farm problem is to gather around me a lot of people who know something about it, to look at all the experience that we have had with this problem before, to take a certain amount of time at it, and then to come to some conclusion in a reasonable way about it. Now, I can't tell you ahead of time what solution, but I can give you some of the principles I'll try to use - not to make things difficult for individual farmers, if there are any special problems we will have to have some way to take care of them," etc., etc., etc.
Now such a man would never get anywhere in this country, I think. It's never been tried, anyway. This is in the attitude of mind of the populace, that they have to have an answer and that a man who gives an answer is better than a man who gives no answer, when the real fact of the matter is, in most cases, it is the other way around. And the result of this of course is that the politician must give an answer. And the result of this is that political promises can never be kept. It is a mechanical fact; it is impossible. The result of that is that nobody believes campaign promises. And the result of that is a general disparaging of politics, a general lack of respect for the people who are trying to solve problems, and so forth. It's all generated from the very beginning (maybe - this is a simple analysis). It's all generated, maybe, by the fact that the attitude of the populace is to try to find the answer instead of trying to find a man who has a way of getting at the answer.”

Richard Feynman kniha The Meaning of It All

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

“I had too much stuff. My machines came from too far away.”

Reflecting on the failure of his presentation at the "Pocono Conference" of 30 March - 1 April 1948.
interview with Sylvan S. Schweber, 13 November 1984, published in QED and the Men Who Made It: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga (1994) by Silvan S. Schweber, p. 436

“A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.”

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

“And this is medicine?”

Comment to psychiatrist who examines Feynman and states he (the psychiatrist) has studied medicine.
Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Uncle Sam Doesn't Need <u>You</u>", p. 159
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“This dying is boring.”

last words (15 February 1988), recalled by sister Joan Feynman, in Christopher Sykes, editor, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1994), p. 254

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.”

on his blackboard at the time of death in February 1988; from a photo in the Caltech archives http://archives.caltech.edu/pictures/1.10-29.jpg

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know?”

Richard Feynman kniha The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.
from lecture "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society", given at the Galileo Symposium in Italy (1964)
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)

“The philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”

Attributed to Feynman, many times, by the British historian of science Brian Cox.
Disputed and/or attributed

“Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, "But how can it be like that?"”

Richard Feynman kniha The Character of Physical Law

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

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

“Western civilization, it seems to me, stands by two great heritages. One is the scientific spirit of adventure — the adventure into the unknown, an unknown which must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored; the demand that the unanswerable mysteries of the universe remain unanswered; the attitude that all is uncertain; to summarize it — the humility of the intellect. The other great heritage is Christian ethics — the basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual — the humility of the spirit.
These two heritages are logically, thoroughly consistent. But logic is not all; one needs one's heart to follow an idea. If people are going back to religion, what are they going back to? Is the modern church a place to give comfort to a man who doubts God — more, one who disbelieves in God? Is the modern church a place to give comfort and encouragement to the value of such doubts? So far, have we not drawn strength and comfort to maintain the one or the other of these consistent heritages in a way which attacks the values of the other? Is this unavoidable? How can we draw inspiration to support these two pillars of western civilization so that they may stand together in full vigor, mutually unafraid? Is this not the central problem of our time?”

remarks (2 May 1956) at a Caltech YMCA lunch forum http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm

“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?"”

Richard Feynman kniha The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Zdroj: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 239, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=48m10s

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere."”

I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
volume I; lecture 3, "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences"; section 3-4, "Astronomy"; p. 3-6
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

“…study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

excerpt from letter to J. M. Szabados (30 November 1965), quoted in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track The Letters of Richard P. Feynman" (2005) by Michelle Feynman and Carl Feynman, p. 206

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