Richard Feynman

1918–1988 · theoretical physicist

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics and was, by some distance, the most quotable physicist of his century — a bongo-playing, safe-cracking lecturer who talked about his own subject with cheerful irreverence. That reputation is why this sentence sticks to him: it sounds like the sort of thing he would say. He did say the sort of thing he would say. He just said it more precisely, and with better manners.

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“Anyone who claims to understand quantum physics is lying or crazy”

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