Feynman

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Richard

1918-1988

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Freethinker

Looking back at the worst of times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something.  And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them.  And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

The Meaning of it All

I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong … I don’t feel frightened by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose.  Which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

BBC, “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out,” 1981

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