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Religion Quotes by Richard P. Feynman
- Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
- Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard…
- During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method…
- [When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of…
- 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…
- [Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you…
- 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,…
- This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student…
- God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
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