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Old 08-October-2005, 06:39 AM
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Originally Posted by snarkophilus
And, of course, anything Feynman ever penned is pure gold. I don't even know where to start with those ones. Maybe "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
IMO, perhaps the most scientific quote of all:

"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'm not absolutely sure of anything [...]"

"But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose—which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me."

-- Richard P. Feynman
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