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Tuesday, June 07, 2011


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.

7 comments:

Mike aka MonolithTMA said...

Wonderful!

I 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.

VV said...

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.

Thomas Fummo said...

It is a fantastic quote...

you should hear him sing it :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4

CyberKitten said...

As soon as someone speaks of certainty I know they are speaking from ignorance... or at least I'm 98% sure of that.... [grin].

dbackdad said...

Great quote. People being afraid of not knowing the answer is almost the whole reason for religion existing.

Stephen said...

I think that quotation was worked into the Symphony of Science videos!

Thomas Fummo said...

What I meant by you should hear him sing it ;-)

I'm not frightened by not knowing things,
I think it's much moooore interestiiing!