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Richard Feynman
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Richard Feynman
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“Out of the cradle
onto dry land…
here it is standing…
atoms with consciousness
…matter with curiosity.
Stands at the sea…
wonders at wondering…
I, a universe of atoms…
an atom in the universe.”
Richard Feynman
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“God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you’re taking away from God; you don’t need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven’t figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don’t believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time – life and death – stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don’t think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.”
Richard Feynman
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“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.”
Richard Feynman
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“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here…
I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened not knowing things; by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn’t frighten me.”
Richard Feynman
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“Is science true? No, no we don’t know what’s true, we’re trying to find out. Everything is possibly wrong. Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong. Let us see. As soon as you do that you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.”
Richard Feynman
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“Of course if we make good things, it is not only to the credit of science; it is also to the credit of the moral choice which led us to the good work. Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad, but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.”
Richard Feynman
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“Stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern, of which I am a part. What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it.”
Richard Feynman
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“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Richard Feynman
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“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things…”
Richard Feynman
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