I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
In plain words
He was born knowing nothing and spent his life fixing that.
Where these words come from
- 44% sureLots of sources credit Richard Feynman with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Used as the epigraph of James Gleick's biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992); no specific primary interview/letter identified.
