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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Richard P. Feynman
Struggle, Communication, People
Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.61, Hachette UK

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard P. Feynman
Strong, Struggle, Science
Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard P. Feynman
Atheist, Drama, Struggle
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.112, Princeton University Press

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Richard P. Feynman
Fear, Struggle, Men
Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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