“A filosofia da ciência é tão útil para o cientista quanto a ornitologia para os pássaros”
Richard Feynman, conforme relatado por Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Editora Record - Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo - 2006. ISBN: 85-01-07213-3 (pág. 459)
Richard Philips Feynman foi um físico norte-americano do século XX, um dos pioneiros da eletrodinâmica quântica, e Nobel de Física de 1965. É irmão mais velho da astrofísica Joan Feynman.
“A filosofia da ciência é tão útil para o cientista quanto a ornitologia para os pássaros”
Richard Feynman, conforme relatado por Singh, Simon - Big Bang - Editora Record - Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo - 2006. ISBN: 85-01-07213-3 (pág. 459)
“Posso dizer seguramente que ninguém entende a física quântica.”
I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics
The Character of Physical Law (1965) Ch. 6; MIT Press, 1967
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 Feynman Lectures on Physics: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat, de Richard Phillips Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands - Publicado por Addison-Wesley, 1963
“A Física está para a Matemática como o sexo está para a masturbação.”
Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation
Richard Feynman citado em "Physically speaking: a dictionary of quotations on physics and astronomy" - Página 215, Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither - CRC Press, 1997, ISBN 0750304707, 9780750304702 - 492 páginas
If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
citado em "Armageddon now: the end of the world A to Z" - Página 337, Jim Willis, Barbara Willis - Visible Ink Press, 2005, ISBN 0780809238, 9780780809239 - 450 páginas
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Sobre escolhas seletivas na investigação científica.
como citado por Ben Goldacre em Ciência picareta; tradução de Renato Rezende, Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2015, versão kindle, posição 1879.
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interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 193-194
from a public lecture, as quoted in David L. Goodstein, "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher," Physics Today, volume 42, number 2 (February 1989) p. 70-75, at p. 73
Republished in the "Special Preface" to Six Easy Pieces (1995), p. xxi.
Republished also in the "Special Preface" to the "definitive edition" of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I, p. xiv.
Fonte: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 1, “The Law of Gravitation,” p. 13: video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk&t=7m53s
"The Making of a Scientist," p. 19
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
“So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton’s equations, are reversible.”
volume I; lecture 46, "Ratchet and Pawl"; section 46-5, "Order and entropy"; p. 46-8
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
The Value of Science (1955)
volume III, "Feynman's Epilogue", p. 21-19 (closing sentence)
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
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)
volume I; lecture 3, "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences"; section 3-6, "Psychology"; p. 3-8
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
“Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.”
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
Fonte: No Ordinary Genius (1994), p. 82, from interview in "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981): video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwUwWh5Xs4&t=24m55s
“Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.”
After having been led astray on neutron-proton coupling by reports of "beta-decay experts".
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "The 7 Percent Solution", p. 255
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
“Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.”
letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
“The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.”
Review blurb for the first edition of The Quantum Universe http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521564573 (1987)
Fonte: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 2, “The Relation of Mathematics to Physics,” p. 58
Fonte: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 15
statement at hearing by Rogers Commission, 11 February 1986, Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, volume 4, p. 680 http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v4part4.htm#4; also quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 423
The Value of Science (1955)
Contexto: We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
... It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand. In the impetuous youth of humanity, we can make grave errors that can stunt our growth for a long time. This we will do if we say we have the answers now, so young and ignorant as we are. If we suppress all discussion, all criticism, proclaiming "This is the answer, my friends; man is saved!" we will doom humanity for a long time to the chains of authority, confined to the limits of our present imagination. It has been done so many times before.
... It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.
lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-2
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Video interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytxafTXg6c dated 1963
lecture II: "The Uncertainty of Values"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
how do I say that?"
"Well, you have to use a different word for 'solve,' " they say.
"Why?" I protested. "When I solve it, I do the same damn thing as when you solve it!"
"Well, yes, but it's a different word — it's more polite."
I gave up. I decided that wasn't the language for me, and stopped learning Japanese.
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Would <U>You</U> Solve the Dirac Equation?", p. 245-246
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
lecture III: "This Unscientific Age"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
note (c. 1945), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 204
Part 2: "The Princeton Years", "A Map of the Cat?", p. 70
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.
lecture I: "The Uncertainty of Science"
The Meaning of It All (1999)
“The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."”
volume III; lecture 18, "Angular Momentum"; section 18-3, "The annihilation of positronium"; p. 18-9
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms"; p. 1-3
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)