I really like this Quote:
I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by
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, possibly. It doesn’t
frighten me.
Physicist Richard Feynman.
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI can't count how many times I've been told that I, and everyone else, seek certain answers to certain questions.
The assumption is ingrained into certain people. I run into it a lot in discussions with theists.
Really, I'm not going to lose any sleep if I'm no a hundred percent certain about the origins of everything.
I'm okay not knowing too. I like mysteries and surprises. I know what I believe, but I know I don't know it for a fact, and that's okay. I hate it when people insist that they know for a fact, what nobody can know.
ReplyDeleteIt is a fantastic quote...
ReplyDeleteyou should hear him sing it :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4
As soon as someone speaks of certainty I know they are speaking from ignorance... or at least I'm 98% sure of that.... [grin].
ReplyDeleteGreat quote. People being afraid of not knowing the answer is almost the whole reason for religion existing.
ReplyDeleteI think that quotation was worked into the Symphony of Science videos!
ReplyDeleteWhat I meant by you should hear him sing it ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm not frightened by not knowing things,
I think it's much moooore interestiiing!