# Quote — Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

> I've always been rather very one-sided about the science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. I didn't have time to learn, and I didn't have much patience for what's called the humanities; even though in the university there were humanities that you had to take, I tried my best to avoid somehow to learn anything and to work on it. It's only afterwards, when I've gotten older and more relaxed that I've spread out a little bit — I've learned to draw, and I read a little bit, but I'm really still a very one-sided person and don't know a great deal. I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

- Author: [Richard P. Feynman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman.md)
- Book: [The Pleasure of Finding Things Out](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out.md)
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> ...I don't believe in the idea that there are a few peculiar people capable of understanding math and the rest of the world is normal. Math is a human discovery, and it's no more complicated than humans can understand. I had a calculus book once that said, "What one fool can do, another fool can." What we've been able to work out about nature may look abstract and threatening to someone who hasn't studied it, but it was fools who did it, and in the next generation, all the fools will understand it. There's a tendency to pomposity in all this, to make it all deep and profound...

p. 194 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/i-dont-believe.md)

> I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-p-feynman/the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out/i-dont-know.md)

> ...In that same period there was Newton, there was Harvey studying the circulation of the blood, there were people with methods of analysis by which progress was being made! You can take every one of Spinoza's propositions and take the contrary propositions and look at the world--and you can't tell which is right. Sure, people were awed because he had the courage to take on these great questions, but it doesn't do any good to have the courage if you can't get anywhere with the question...

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