Richard P. Feynman Imagination Quotations

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

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.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax

It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed to imagine in science must be consistent with everything else we know.

The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.