6 Richard Feynman Quotes on Reality

Richard Feynman quotes on reality

6. 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.

17. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

36. Anyway, I have to argue about flying saucers on the beach with people, you know. And I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

63. Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who are not so tall have to choose!

70. Mathematics is not real, but it feels real. Where is this place?

86. Thirty-one years ago [1949], Dick Feynman told me about his 'sum over histories' version of quantum mechanics. 'The electron does anything it likes,' he said. 'It just goes in any direction at any speed, forward or backward in time, however it likes, and then you add up the amplitudes and it gives you the wave-function.' I said to him, 'You're crazy.' But he wasn't.