The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.
Richard P. FeynmanGod was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
Richard P. FeynmanNo! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.
Richard P. FeynmanStrange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.
Richard P. FeynmanIn fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.
Richard P. FeynmanIn those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.
Richard P. Feynman