Feynman, Richard Phillips

US author, educator, and physicist

wrote memoirs "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" 1985, "What Do You Care What Other People Think" 1988

led investigation of space shuttle Challenger explosion

Nobel Prize in Physics 1965

• "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool."
• "The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things..."
• "I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there."
• "If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."