7 Richard Feynman Quotes on Understanding

Richard Feynman quotes on understanding

7. 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.

18. I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

21. What I cannot create, I do not understand.

42. I have to understand the world, you see.

44. In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

67. If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood it.

79. What does it mean, to understand? ... I don't know.