Not to get too political, but I hate that someone who says things like that would be seen as less knowledgeable to most people than the people who commit to a guess. "Ah. He doesn't know which way's up. Let's listen to the guy who actually has an answer." Whether or not that answer has any real likelihood of being accurate.
@@lukatrdina5108 I don't think so. I'm definitely not quoting him, but I might have seen that idea somewhere in the book and I just can't remember. I thought of this when the virus thing started up, and I saw how people I knew were following Trump's description of how the virus was under control, even though they also saw that experts were saying "This might not be too bad, but it could be VERY bad. We don't know, and we need to take precautions." This example might just be an authority thing, but I still think it might have bearing on a lot of important issues. I don't know though.
@@dragon-xt4vw I think he used the exact same example though, might have heard it somewhere so it stayed in the back of your head or something...well anyway, good point regardless :)
He did not consider himself as a philosopher but when you listen to him speaking about universe and human-related subjects then you realize deep down he was a philosopher. I can listen to him all day long without getting bored. You will never be forgotten Mr. Feynman.
I wish I could have talked to him about the beinning...how the oldest book talked about lightning coming from the snow clouds. Only God could have told this to Job. And the beginning of all things...the spirit of God "brooding" on the icy waters of a dark abandoned planet. "Brooding" as an eagle over a nest. Warm air and crystallized water. "Let there be light. And there was light." In Job I learned there is a language encoded in the light. It's is translated into thunder. Animals, it says, understand thunder. I would like to ask about matter colliding with its relative anitimatter. I've heard that both are obliterated, leaving only light. Is it true? Is it possible that all things were constructed from this beginning? Let there be light.
@@nadzach matter/antimatter release energy. Light is a type of kinetic energy also known as electromagnetic radiation. It does not contain mass like matter and antimatter do. Plank explained this very clearly in the 1800’s. Einstein provided an elaboration of this.
@@mikezappulla4092Thank you. Being quite old and unwell, it isn't likely I could learn the math necessary to understand physics. But I will try. I can see very clearly the pattern of all things. There is a reference in scripture to "the Proton psalm." The Proton draws the electon with "cords of love." A pathway called "the way of life passes on the plane through 3 courts like shells and then turns upward at a central place called the mercy seat which would be a kind of analogy to a throne for the proton. In my mind, I cannot reconcile all of this as coincidental. The electon in scripture, however, gathers increasing light along the way toward the Proton. While this is forward movement in life, it seems to be falling back in physics? It was many years ago in a difficult time when I was just looking for the meaning/purpose of life. This journey seemed to be it. "Seek my face," he said. David answered, "Thy face will I seek." So I began the journey. Each shell was another beginning. Solomon uses words to describe these beginnings; and I have never heard either Jew or Christian admit that the words mark, matthew, luke and john are used in his passage on "the way of life." So, needless to say...I took the journey. I suppose that the light of faith allows one to see. But Wouldn't it be great if I could just learn math that way! Anyway, I'm making a note of your response. Another journey. TY
autism, adhd, the overactive mind, the passionate mind, the focused mind, the excited mind, whatever you want to call it, he loves his work and was excited to share it.
you're idolizing him ! what's his views on laws of physics , how they came to existence ? do they create themselves or they have been created by a superior entity
"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think its much more interesting to live with not knowing then to have answers which might be wrong."
@@ramzichouk4080 Sometimes there are no answers. When it comes to religion, we know all religions are wrong (and most of them are ridiculous) because they were made up by us. In this context, I rather not know the answers to the big questions and marvel their complexity than to just settle with some religion and be sure to be wrong.
@@uRRonin "we know" ? how do YOU know ? did you study all religions ? i don't think so , also the question here is about a superior force creating the universe , religion comes after you agree on the fact wish is the universe is indeed created !
He was gifted with a wonderful and powerful mind but instead of giving credit to God he’s hugging the memory of his nobel prize in the flames of hell. So tragic.
@@book3100 ok of course he got paid, as one of the greatest scientists of our generation he deserves it. But that wasn't his motive, whereas I cant say the same for any preacher. And Feynman's job was discovering new things in particle physics, and still more than that. Dude was a genius for SURE. Great scientist 7ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp not in
@@JakubNaszkowski I like it. It breaks the narrative of capitalist pigs who often believe that thinking poor people should die somehow correlates to intelligence. When some of the smartest people vehemently disagree they can't keep up the charade, and they have to either do some extreme mental gymnastiscs or denounce some of our greatest scientist. People say communism is bad and refuse to listen to any arguments and act like children when arguing it, well if some of the smartest people were communists then maybe they might be forced to consider that they could be wrong. It's even more hilarous when they refuse to even consider the fact after hearing this. And the fact that you interperet my comment as insulting them saddens me. Political affiliations matter, they affect billions. To not care is the privilige of the unaffected and naive. If his intellect trully speaks as loud as you say, listen to it. All of it, not just the parts you like.
@@tensorwolf What are you on about? I have given no inclination of my mathematical ability. Do you not comprehend how to structure an argument in the english language? What is your argument? You don't make any sense.
"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 certainity about different things, I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about such as 'whether it means anything to ask why we're here and what the question might mean' and I might think a little bit about it but if I can't figure it out then I go to something else. 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 till, it doesn't frighten me. "
As a devout Roman Catholic, Richard Feynman is one of my ultimate scientific heroes. I have never heard another intellectual regardless of religious faith or lack there of speak so eloquently and sympathetic to an opposing view!
i was baptized catholic but have become agnostic over time ive found jordan peterson also speaks well of that which he questions im not sure if he believes hes religious but he speaks very well of cristianity
@@cidsapient7154 Jordan Peterson is dead on when he says he "acts as though God exists" most people who claim to be religious do not understand the implications of belief or even what it means! I spent many years as a hardcore atheist but found that it's implications were unlivable; I was not converted on a miraculous event or argumentation from the opposing view but out of sheer necessity for meaning, value & reason; so I also find it quite difficult to answer the question "Do you believe in God", so I very much respect the agnostic position! Also I come from Ireland which is proceeding to becoming a secular country, so most of my friends and family are either atheist or agnostic, so I have a good understanding of scepticism
@@dawnviolet9720 yea that "acts as if god exists" thing got me to i used to be an atheist of sorts, i didnt really know it the internet showed me other atheists and showed me what i dont want to be i think atheism is the path to gnosticism or agnosticism some ppl just spend much longer on that path and i can imagine more disenfranchised
@@cidsapient7154 Slavoj Zizek points out that only an atheist can truly be a Christian, in other words one must doubt first before he can believe! Although acknowledge the existence of a God I am still quite sceptical of most things! It wasn't too hard for me to accept the existence of a deity as it was for me to understand the reality of an afterlife or hell; I believe the driving force behind my reconversion was the complexity principle that if the universe was a hairs breath off balance it would crumple into obscurity. Christopher Hitchens even pointed out that this was the one argument which he and his fellow atheists really struggled with. My definition of God is the only being who's reason for his existence is within himself, every other organism relies upon something else for its existence!
"I don't feel frightened by not knowing things. By being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell..." This is why Feynman was so unique. Most of us either believe or don't believe but those of us that don't or are unsure are scared out of our boots at the prospect of why we exist and what happens when we die. But Feynam was different. He lived his life in the present and there is much to be said about that.
Aww. Should've included "possibly" in "as far as I can tell-possibly". Feynman adding that word is so brilliant and really underlines this uniqueness you mention.
i hope with time i get more of his nonchalant nature im also one that is somewhat petrified at the prospects my mind has learned along the way i still dont feel we will ever have enough time and i wanna know why
questions have no meaning without answers , a question by definition exists because of the need for an answer , and you can have both questions and right answers , this guy is not the genius you think he is , there is millions like him around the world !
@@ramzichouk4080 Did Mohammed flew on the back of a white winged horse and used his sword to break the Moon into two? I wonder what Feynman would say about that?
@@aqabdulaziz did the universe as we know it begun as a singularity ? i do believe that even if it's more surreal than a man flying on a winged horse , also it's not literrally a winged horse it's what we call now a plane but it's not human made
@@tensorwolf Exactly, and it's frustrating. Science is treated as the new religious dogma in our society, particularly by people like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. I like the fact Feynman is all too aware that there are many questions that can't be answered.
Samuel Alexander isn’t that the actual beauty of science? Like only developing certain frameworks which we are 100% certain of and leaving the rest for the future generations to figure out, unlike religion.
@@tensorwolf Of course. The crazy thing about science is its consistency. It almost seems as if the universe abides these certain laws. I'm more of a spiritual guy myself. I think religion has no authority on metaphysical concerns, but I think mysticism and spirituality can offer insight into these troubling doubts that we have in life. Of course though, this is a very personal thing. I cannot expect to convince you of the deeper truths that I have experienced and understood in my lifetime and it would be silly to expect you to agree. After all, we don't know jack shit! The best we can do is ogle and wonder at the marvel that is this reality.
@@spencershaw2407 I've read the Bible several times from cover to cover. Boring and just a bunch of legends and fables. Even Jesus is probably just a myth.
@@modytoto811 Pure bullshit video;) Our universe isn't in slightest organized all is chaos, we see it as organized, because we live too short. It's like would snow flake say, that he is organized before he had melted.
I taught science in Ontario, Canada, about 50 years ago. Evolution was not part of the high-school science curriculum, but I ran an after-school science club. For the year-end presentation of projects, the Science club prepared a mural about 40 inches (one meter) wide and 50 feet long to illustrate geological periods from the pre-Cambrian to the present. The mural had names and dates for each geological period. The club had a few fundamentalist Christians, obvious from archaic articles of clothing. But although evolution was a sensitive subject, American fundamentalist sects had not much spread into Canada back then. Canadian Protestant and Catholic Churches accepted evolution with only a few restrictions. To introduce the subject of life through the ages, I never used the word "evolution". But I did read a few paragraphs from Genesis. I said that Genesis was a beautiful explanation WHY life exists that people can understand without knowledge of science. In science we try to explain HOW life has changed through time. We do not seek to answer whether or not there is a Creator nor the Creator's purpose in creation. These are not scientific questions. (This follows from Karl Popper's view that only theories capable of being disproved by scientific methods can be classed as scientific theories.) (In Canada, there is no restriction such as in the US First Amendment. And the legal standard for teachers is to respect the religious beliefs of parents and children.) I did not reveal that I am an atheist but said that I saw no conflict between religion and science because the purpose of each is different. I still believe that. (Based on Popper's view of science, Creationism is a pseudoscience, NOT because people believe in a Creator, but because people believe that their belief in Creationism is NOT religion, but science. This is also the view of US Federal and State courts. To my knowledge this legal question has not arisen in Canada.) The mural was a huge success. The members of the club managed everything, including the number of panels needed and who would draw and colourize each panel. All I had to do was provide a role of paper 40 inches wide (about one meter) and boxes of artist's pencils and pastels. And be present in the science lab after school where the children were working on their mural. And to make suggestions when asked. I did not teach about Darwin's theory of evolution and in this way avoided controversy while filling a gap in the science curriculum and providing a foundation for later learning about evolution.
Did you teach Darwin's theory as if it were gospel (so to speak) or did you also teach the students the very cogent critiques of the theory (I don't mean "Creationism" but rather the other, more acedemic and scientific critiques)?
@@phaedrussmith1949 Did not teach any theory. It was a mural for an annual display of student projects. The theme was life through geological ages from 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era to the present. If I had discussed theory, I would have discussed Darwin's theory, not the original theory but the "modern synthesis", which includes genetics and called "Neo-Darwinian Theory, now supported by dozens of sub-fields of Earth science and biology. S.J. Gould and Niles Eldredge had not published their ideas on punctuated equilibrium. Plate tectonics had not become a theory of continental mobility. Geochronology was in its early stage of development. We may honour Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, but today an entire course in evolution can be taught with only 30 minutes devoted to Darwin. Same as a course in the circulation of the blood. William Harvey is passed over in one or two minutes. A lot has happened in evolutionary theory since 1858.
@@fwcolb That sounds quite interesting and a worthy project for the students. Yet at the same time its pedagogy seems very similar to what the Christians teach to children with their concept of Creationism. It seems designed to teach children what to think, not how to think. In this regard I can see Vine Deloria Jr’s point in observing that science is a “secular religion.”
@@phaedrussmith1949 Not at all. Creationist's believe the universe was created in 7 days of 24 hours about 6000 years ago based on the genealogy set out in Genesis. (Reference to James Ussher's chronology below) Creationists dispute the facts of evolution: the appearance of new species, their extinction and replacement by new species. The project I described illustrated geological periods hundreds of million years ago to the present, the extinction of many species and their replacement by new species. This is the raw material of paleontology, plate tectonics and paleo-climatology, the main sources of evolutionary evidence until the discovery of DNA / RNA and the more recent development of bioinformatics. I don't doubt your literacy in evolutionary theory. but it is worthwhile to review the stance of Creationists and the history and geography of creationism. Creationism was not a big issue in Canada in 1960. National religious organizations both Protestant and Catholic supported the "modern synthesis" by which Darwin's theory of natural selection was revised to include genetics. Even today, in Canada, Creationism is held mainly by Christian sects established by US missionaries. And by some Muslims, perhaps most Muslims, few of whom had emigrated to Canada by 1960. With notable exceptions, Creationism is an American phenomenon shared with fundamentalist Muslims in several countries, mainly in Asia. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
@@fwcolb Yes, myself I hardly pay even minimal notice to “Creationism” except that it always creeps into the discussion as the pedestrian binary default into which the general discussion always seems to devolve (e.g., one has to either believe “Evolution” or “Creationism by God” there is no other option). In fact, there are many other options. As to the participation of religion in the discussion, by its own merits it can and should be dismissed quite early on in the discussion. What I was attempting to convey is that when those who ascribe to “science” (whatever that is) and teach that “evolution” (Darwin and the progeny of Darwin) is correct, they are participating in the exact same mechanism of creating belief as the religion people are when they teach “creation” is correct. It becomes a pedagogy in what to believe, not how to think. That’s not education, that’s inculcation. Ultimately it leads to binary arguments which are little more than narratives of power used by competing kings (or whatever word is being used to describe one who believes he should have power over others for whatever reason or series of reasons). Ultimately no one is “thinking,” but rather everyone is “believing.” People who “believe” can be easily manipulated. People who think are dangerous creatures to structures of power. John Trudell once noted that the revolutionary of the future will be the person who thinks. In any event, my comment was not to be critical of your project, which I think was brilliant (and as a person who has taught in a classroom very reminiscent of the great teachers I have observed who truly care about the kids). In fact, the manner in which you were able to create intelligent synthesis between the creationist view and the scientific view is an excellent illustration of rising above the fray of the binary argument and by example teaching kids how to think.
Listening to him makes me wonder if there really is any difference among science, philosophy and a religious mind (free of religious organization) ...the ability to doubt and question without fear or seeking security in an answer is an amazing and rare capacity
Even if it didn't, to have some distorted belief - such as a lot of contemporary religions - it's problem, whether you dig deep in it or not. But to have a truly not distorted and even has lots of evidences belief, then it's the best (As it's in Islamic religion, you can search for "Sabighat" book to know some of Islam evidences if you want)
I love it, too. It reminds me of Vince Gilligan (the creator of Breaking Bad and a Better Call Saul), who has a noticeable Southern accent, but who you know is brilliant just based on his works. I'm not saying Southerners can't be intelligent, but it's a nice contrast to hear a regional accent come from a highly intelligent person.
People who believe in religion are the heretics now a days - which is unfortunate- people should believe what they want to - after all, none of us have the answers to this strange thing called life
Timothy Dexter people CHOOSE to do it ; to them, its not wasting their life, nor time. And I don’t get your analysis ? bank account? Explain. Moreover, you should be worried where our taxes are going, rather than how others get “exempt” from a few dollars; every dollar me and you pay (since i assume you pay taxes as well) contributes to war after war and a whole bunch of other wicked means - so while I agree, religion CAN be detrimental, it should not bother you about how others live their lives.. and btw only a SMALL percentage get exemptions from such activities Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to imply since your response was typed - But it sounded like you were saying they (as in religious beings) are the ones wasting money and their time - which is why I don’t understand how that makes you dislike someone with a faith system
To whom wrote, Feynman was a moron I reply shame on you. I studied under professor Feynman. Thorough His teaching I found God. I cannot say unfortunately, if the Master had a PERSONAL relationship with the Lord. But I know in first person , that he mentioned God a lot!!!!!!Rest in peace Master.
today I can stop my searching because of this deep quote by one of the greatest minds of all time, professor Richard Feynman............. " I don't feel freighted by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is by the way as far as I can tell " ......
Believers say there must be a god, otherwise life has no meaning. Self-determination requires that the individual decides what his or her life has meant. The Universe does not owe us a god for our meaning. Feynman was a great humanitarian.
Hell yeah, brother. I live in a country where you can get lynched for questioning religious beliefs, but I'm gunna raise my children as thinking rational beings :)
What makes science more rational above belief is that science doesn’t claim anything at all. It will give you a facade for the most probable outcome. Belief on the other hand works through insurmountable claims and zero evidence. In that sense, belief is atrocious and condescending over everything.
Not knowing many or even most things doesn't "frighten" me, but is makes me curious about it. If I really would like to know for a good reason, I might get mad that I might never know. Pretending that I'm not lonely, by talking to a ball, doesn't make the ball alive and understanding.
Great part of the vid. Still staying true to how skepticism is the essence of his being. A lot of his findings and learnings all point towards humans having no purpose in the universe, but aren't definitive. It's what he currently believes, but he's open to the fact that some scientific discovery might change that tomorrow and his view might evolve.
On balance , taking everything into account, having regard to the long history of the world and what's on it...Sir Humpy eat your heart out..God could not be like that....we don't know whats true...maybe there is no covid 19....a bad man to have around in these times.
"If there were not in the streams of these words, but what doubts your inherited beliefs to delegate to the heart and not to mention the benefit, because doubts are the way of truth, who did not doubt did not look and who did not look did not see and who did not see remained in blindness and astray" - Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
@@markdavis7397 Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal), small autobiography book - Oh! If we only know who is really Al-Gazhali...His people rejected his gifts, but hopfully others will pick them up...Humanity will always need someone like him...
@@markdavis7397 Thank you for enabling me to look further! In fact, many orientalists were fair about some historical events but some weren't. Impartial western sources have listed him among the 5 more influencing personality in all human history. If we need to speak relativity and space-time continuum, let's check El-Gazali. Foundations of ethics, pedagogy and psychology, check El-Ghazali. Cartesian doubt is actually Gazalian doubt ( you can compare by yourself "Discourse on the Method" and the book cited above, it's nearly a copy-paste). Even his contemporaries (whom most of them hated him as he's still hated today by their spiritual descendants, these unfortunate petrodollar-bred radical empty extremists) noted that he's remained loyal to philosophy and science till the day he died - I like Neil Degrass Tyson when he speaks about universe and stuff, but when he spoke about El-Gazali he seemed as an impulsive child, he just proved that he didn't read El-Gazali, he read about El-Gazali. They claim that he destroyed the Islamic science? Really? Is that El-Gazali that we know? Didn't you confuse him with Nizam al-Mulk? Actually, Mr. Davis, I've learned one thing that helped me a lot to progress in my life and my quests : Read humbly the devil's work but don't read the works on the devil. Finally, I can absolutely be wrong in everything. Final note for my beloved fellow human Feynman who taught me a lot: Humans are not lost within the universes, universes are lost within humans! We are greater than we can imagine and there will be time to know that!
I was for most of my life a staunch atheist. It all seemed so obvious to me. I now regret expressing my views to others and the harm it could do. I now am an agnostic and keep my views to myself.
I thoroughly hate religious people. The hypocrisy and ignorance, both in the soft and hard liners, is so immense that it boils my blood. But then I think what my beliefs are with regard to the universe, and I realize I might be even more insane. Since that realization I'm fine with religious folks. It's just too bad that it still influences politics and causes so much suffering. Oh well..
Why keep your views to yourself? Why not be honest and say you are an agnostic? Which is what I am and what I say. There is no scientific proof for the existence or nonexistence of god. If the existence of god comes up in a conversation, I just say that I see no convincing evidence to believe it/he/she/they exist and I do not believe god exists but, in the absence of rigorous scientific proof either way, I could be wrong. Feynman was an agnostic also, though it is not really apparent from this clip. Elsewhere he wrote what I just said: there is no rigorous scientific proof either way.
One day before my wife died and I was spouting off she turned to me and said simply; you know a lot of people really believe. It was then that I realized how hurtful my opining about my beliefs (or nonbeliefs) could be on a personal level.
I totally agree with him, but in some way I look at the universe and just think: All these amazing stars, this endless space, everything just coincedence? Behind this beauty there must be something that we don't understand. Of course, there was the big bang and everything expanded, but for me, there has to be someone who meant this, someone greater than us I don't know if you can understand me, but that's the way I look at this
Why does there have to be anything separate to all of this? Could it not be that this is all just that divine nature understanding and propagating itself for eternity?
Samuel Alexander as I as can know, if that is the case then that divine isn't so divine Or perhaps this require a deconstruction to what we know as divine or holy
@@samuelalexander1014 dr.zakir naik is the speaker.it will definitely change your prospect and i am sure it will help in the future and you can ask any further question to me!!!
This is a careful reminder of everything I believe in -- I revisit this every month or so, so glad to have walked the Infinite Corridor in the same steps as him, but would have loved to have met him in the tunnels and have a chat
As a believer I can only agree with prof. Feynmann: his is a fully valid logic attitude. In fact I am convinced that true faith is the result of an encounter, since God is not just a tale or a set of rules imposed by religion but an event. A rational mind alone cannot acknowledge God unless God himself touches it.
i agree with Feynman, it's too local, we can't say the origins of the universe, at least all worlds/ doesn't come from the Sun. It's too provincial as he says.
FANTASTIC! I can live with doubt and not knowing. It is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. This is so PROFOUND and I hope religious nutjobs get to read this.
Fynman's emphasis on doubt goes back to Descartes, who started off by rejecting everything he could doubt. Then he realized that he could not doubt he was doubting. He arrived at his famous statement: I think, therefore I am. Feynman needs to question whether or not his understanding of religion is adequate. Hint: It is not.
When I look at the edge Oh it scares me. Though I know I'll go, Always go back. If there was somewhere to go, My boat wasn't holed on the reef. And my lack of belief In the truth I am seeing... To you I'll tie My inner eye Which never, ever Ever lies. Leave behind To seek And find Within The things You see.
Oh, I wish I could have been a student of his, or even met him. We need more like him--especially now. Well, admittedly, we are always in the darkness in some respect. It is the scientists, philosophers and thinkers who keep us out of the murk--at least to a degree--in any era.
@@tracy9610 To be fair, teaching difficult concepts to youngsters might have been part of what made him great. I believe it was him who said "if you can't explain something simply then you don't understand it well enough"... To teach youth who haven't fully developed their mental powers I'd imagine you'd have to teach them simpler than you would mature adults and so maybe to do this he was therefore required to understand better?
You’re watching a man state he doesn’t believe and finds the arguments for gods existence to be fatuous in nature and you determine he is indeed a man of god? Wtf
@@liqritrs8391 The reality behind God is different than the idea of God. Standing behind a religious definition of God is dogmatic. Ask yourself, what do you think God means, how might it differ from what Richard understood it as, and then from what I understand it as. I believe he did not attempt to understand the dogmatic side of life, he focused on his studies and his love. So of course his definition of God would be limited to the dogma of those who speak of God the loudest.
Like a lot of Western philosophers and scientists he is very in tune with the Buddhist concepts without knowing that he is. One of the key Buddhist concept is what is called "Don't Know mind" which is very similar to what Feynman here is saying what he says he is comfortable not knowing the answer.
@@JoyDaz00 Who are you trying to fool? You know very well that all churches are dens of thieves, and that the Protestant churches are even worse than the Catholic church.
@Taqifsha Nanen Absurd. The very worst people are religious because they believe that they will be forgiven for all of the horrible things they do to their fellow human being. Add in the fact that they believe that their beliefs are superior to others and they become abominations. So shove that up your religion.
@@1996Pinocchio sometimes age because of earths gravity doesnt help a brilliant mind achieve as much because they get older. and all lifes experiances rush in. especially when science took off after 1989 and people havent been able to keep up. he knew earths knowledge was about to explode into many things. maybe jealousy of not being able to see it. like him becoming successful in everything he did but his first wife got sick. hence.
and in his time women didnt really couldnt even vote so. different times. by 1976 everything changed so dramaticaly. americas values never did but everything changed. i just feel for him. thats all im saying.
The video will incense them. Just use a few lines from the video and tell them that you prefer living in a world of doubting and challenging everything. And the idea of a heaven doesn't interest you. Usually shuts up a lot of people in my experience.
1 Corinthians 1:19 Already predicted this. Don't assume that since you have the ability to think a little more outside the box than most that you're suddenly enlightened above all wisdom, secular or religious. Rather, use that wisdom to keep searching for the Truth. All of us have around 80 years on this earth and science is constantly changing. God has never changed and he will not stop trying to reach you all until the time for judgment comes. I don't say this out of spite, but out of concern and love for you guys because I don't wish for you to go to hell and neither does God.
Interesting thoughts...but some people still think that faith and religion must accommodate in science worldview and think that a person who believes is a person who doesn't doubt. If we look to history of science we'll find a lot of great scientists who believe and doubt simultaneously and, I believe, because of that pursued the "truth" and made a lot of contributions to science and society.
Love this man. "Those are the mysteries I want to investigate without knowing the answers to them" here in our land that has been the exact definition of "spirituality" since ages.
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong. 😂👍 Good one. They actually started with the answers, established them, then allowed you to correspond questions to those prepared answers. When wolves rule the sheep, this happens.
Please Read Quran and the biography of Mohamed peace be upon him in order to know what ISLAM is truly is not what the media propagates . There is a chapter called Mary and Jesus peace upon him is mentioned 25 times in Quran whilst Mohamed peace be upon him is only mentioned 5 times Ahmed is also one of his names . Islam means submission to God . ALLAH IS GOD IN ARABIC THE ONE WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE WHO DESIGNED US TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE BAD AND THE GOOD THINGS THE ONE WHO OFFERED US THE FREE WILL TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM AND SO WE MUST STRIVE BECAUSE SOONER OR LATER WE WILL LEAVE THIS EARTHLY LIFE TO THE ETERNAL LIFE Also check youtube channels like the Mercifulservant and Rational believer to learn more about Islam. Also search about scientific facts in QURAN .
Brilliant character and scientist. He has such a way of communicating it. To me-Mathematics-masks the wonder of creation upon which mathematics was created so.
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"I would rather have questions that cant be answered rather than answers that cant be questioned"
The universe don't care what you or me want 🙂
@Bithros
The universe couldn’t care less about your fallacious toppled convictions that you can’t back up either.
@@Bithros it doesn't also care about your comments. So just shut up
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"I have approximate answers, possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything."
Not to get too political, but I hate that someone who says things like that would be seen as less knowledgeable to most people than the people who commit to a guess.
"Ah. He doesn't know which way's up. Let's listen to the guy who actually has an answer." Whether or not that answer has any real likelihood of being accurate.
@@dragon-xt4vw isn't that straight out of his book?
@@lukatrdina5108 I don't think so. I'm definitely not quoting him, but I might have seen that idea somewhere in the book and I just can't remember.
I thought of this when the virus thing started up, and I saw how people I knew were following Trump's description of how the virus was under control, even though they also saw that experts were saying "This might not be too bad, but it could be VERY bad. We don't know, and we need to take precautions." This example might just be an authority thing, but I still think it might have bearing on a lot of important issues. I don't know though.
@@dragon-xt4vw I think he used the exact same example though, might have heard it somewhere so it stayed in the back of your head or something...well anyway, good point regardless :)
Aman Adukoorie I think that mindset is considerably more honest, humble and open to new ideas than the alternative.
He did not consider himself as a philosopher but when you listen to him speaking about universe and human-related subjects then you realize deep down he was a philosopher. I can listen to him all day long without getting bored. You will never be forgotten Mr. Feynman.
Quite a bad one...
Not a very good philosopher...
I wish I could have talked to him about the beinning...how the oldest book talked about lightning coming from the snow clouds. Only God could have told this to Job. And the beginning of all things...the spirit of God "brooding" on the icy waters of a dark abandoned planet. "Brooding" as an eagle over a nest. Warm air and crystallized water. "Let there be light. And there was light." In Job I learned there is a language encoded in the light. It's is translated into thunder. Animals, it says, understand thunder. I would like to ask about matter colliding with its relative anitimatter. I've heard that both are obliterated, leaving only light. Is it true? Is it possible that all things were constructed from this beginning? Let there be light.
@@nadzach matter/antimatter release energy. Light is a type of kinetic energy also known as electromagnetic radiation. It does not contain mass like matter and antimatter do. Plank explained this very clearly in the 1800’s. Einstein provided an elaboration of this.
@@mikezappulla4092Thank you. Being quite old and unwell, it isn't likely I could learn the math necessary to understand physics. But I will try. I can see very clearly the pattern of all things. There is a reference in scripture to "the Proton psalm." The Proton draws the electon with "cords of love." A pathway called "the way of life passes on the plane through 3 courts like shells and then turns upward at a central place called the mercy seat which would be a kind of analogy to a throne for the proton. In my mind, I cannot reconcile all of this as coincidental. The electon in scripture, however, gathers increasing light along the way toward the Proton. While this is forward movement in life, it seems to be falling back in physics? It was many years ago in a difficult time when I was just looking for the meaning/purpose of life. This journey seemed to be it. "Seek my face," he said. David answered, "Thy face will I seek." So I began the journey. Each shell was another beginning. Solomon uses words to describe these beginnings; and I have never heard either Jew or Christian admit that the words mark, matthew, luke and john are used in his passage on "the way of life." So, needless to say...I took the journey. I suppose that the light of faith allows one to see. But Wouldn't it be great if I could just learn math that way! Anyway, I'm making a note of your response. Another journey. TY
How is this man so calm yet so tense at the same time?
Cocaine
@@ZEROZERO-sv1cs stop he was not a drug person
@@gabi-dh9eo u aint kno dis? He was narco warlord, nobody knew cus he was pullin a mr white
@@sergeantoreo8062 yeah of course
autism, adhd, the overactive mind, the passionate mind, the focused mind, the excited mind, whatever you want to call it, he loves his work and was excited to share it.
Feynman was a giant, in science and in general human wisdom.
Rob Babcock - Before you attribute wisdom to him, read the book, "Surely You Jest, Mr. Feynman."
you're idolizing him ! what's his views on laws of physics , how they came to existence ? do they create themselves or they have been created by a superior entity
@@ramzichouk4080 what an uninteresting question.
@@mojado1982 well am hoping to debate so i can come up with a satisfing conclusion .
@@mojado1982 maybe it for you because you can't think outside the box
"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think its much more interesting to live with not knowing then to have answers which might be wrong."
that is not a very smart thinking if you ask me ! life is not black or white there is an infinite number of grey shades in it !
@@ramzichouk4080 Your comment is not really opposing the quote. In fact, you are more or less affirming it.
@@uRRonin yet he says that he's ok with not knowing because he don't want to be wrong , like there was no other way around
@@ramzichouk4080 Sometimes there are no answers. When it comes to religion, we know all religions are wrong (and most of them are ridiculous) because they were made up by us. In this context, I rather not know the answers to the big questions and marvel their complexity than to just settle with some religion and be sure to be wrong.
@@uRRonin "we know" ? how do YOU know ? did you study all religions ? i don't think so , also the question here is about a superior force creating the universe , religion comes after you agree on the fact wish is the universe is indeed created !
There's no shame in not knowing everything - it's in not wanting to.
BULLSEYE.
But eventually the wanting burns itself out. ;)
A bit of a paradix.. if you know everything therees nothing left to do.. no purpose
This guy was a true gem He deserved that Nobel prize
mohammad vahidi
You mean he was a 'gem', 'jam' is a fruit paste.
@@janosk8392 didn't notice thanks
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He was gifted with a wonderful and powerful mind but instead of giving credit to God he’s hugging the memory of his nobel prize in the flames of hell. So tragic.
@Nihilistic Atheist the differences are obvious, what kind of question is this?
Imagine having a president with this type of thinking
A person with this type of thinking would never run for president, only morons do that.
@Mike
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Imagine having citizens who would vote for such a person.
That would be a "bless" for any country..... Let us hope science would lead someday
@@randomblueguy You reminded of a fundamental truth.....
This kind of preacher I can listen to all day, and he didn't ask for money at the end.
Aptly said
No, the universities do that for him.
@@book3100 ok of course he got paid, as one of the greatest scientists of our generation he deserves it. But that wasn't his motive, whereas I cant say the same for any preacher. And Feynman's job was discovering new things in particle physics, and still more than that. Dude was a genius for SURE. Great scientist 7ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp not in
@@harshrathore8854 you don't believe in Religion?
Lol.
his intellect speaks louder than anything else in this twisted world.
Feynman was a communist :) Albert Einstein was a socialist. Spread the word~ Look it up if you doubt.
@@Anon1376642 i do not care much about political affiliations in science. Even if he was communist, so what?
@@JakubNaszkowski I like it. It breaks the narrative of capitalist pigs who often believe that thinking poor people should die somehow correlates to intelligence. When some of the smartest people vehemently disagree they can't keep up the charade, and they have to either do some extreme mental gymnastiscs or denounce some of our greatest scientist.
People say communism is bad and refuse to listen to any arguments and act like children when arguing it, well if some of the smartest people were communists then maybe they might be forced to consider that they could be wrong. It's even more hilarous when they refuse to even consider the fact after hearing this.
And the fact that you interperet my comment as insulting them saddens me. Political affiliations matter, they affect billions. To not care is the privilige of the unaffected and naive.
If his intellect trully speaks as loud as you say, listen to it. All of it, not just the parts you like.
Justforthis so what?
You suck at math I believe, does that prove anything?
@@tensorwolf What are you on about? I have given no inclination of my mathematical ability. Do you not comprehend how to structure an argument in the english language? What is your argument? You don't make any sense.
"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 certainity about different things, I'm not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about such as 'whether it means anything to ask why we're here and what the question might mean' and I might think a little bit about it but if I can't figure it out then I go to something else. 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 till, it doesn't frighten me. "
As a devout Roman Catholic, Richard Feynman is one of my ultimate scientific heroes. I have never heard another intellectual regardless of religious faith or lack there of speak so eloquently and sympathetic to an opposing view!
i was baptized catholic but have become agnostic over time
ive found jordan peterson also speaks well of that which he questions
im not sure if he believes hes religious but he speaks very well of cristianity
@@cidsapient7154 Jordan Peterson is dead on when he says he "acts as though God exists" most people who claim to be religious do not understand the implications of belief or even what it means! I spent many years as a hardcore atheist but found that it's implications were unlivable; I was not converted on a miraculous event or argumentation from the opposing view but out of sheer necessity for meaning, value & reason; so I also find it quite difficult to answer the question "Do you believe in God", so I very much respect the agnostic position! Also I come from Ireland which is proceeding to becoming a secular country, so most of my friends and family are either atheist or agnostic, so I have a good understanding of scepticism
@@dawnviolet9720 yea that "acts as if god exists" thing got me to
i used to be an atheist of sorts, i didnt really know it
the internet showed me other atheists and showed me what i dont want to be
i think atheism is the path to gnosticism or agnosticism
some ppl just spend much longer on that path
and i can imagine more disenfranchised
@@cidsapient7154 Slavoj Zizek points out that only an atheist can truly be a Christian, in other words one must doubt first before he can believe! Although acknowledge the existence of a God I am still quite sceptical of most things! It wasn't too hard for me to accept the existence of a deity as it was for me to understand the reality of an afterlife or hell; I believe the driving force behind my reconversion was the complexity principle that if the universe was a hairs breath off balance it would crumple into obscurity. Christopher Hitchens even pointed out that this was the one argument which he and his fellow atheists really struggled with. My definition of God is the only being who's reason for his existence is within himself, every other organism relies upon something else for its existence!
@@cidsapient7154 Peterson is not a well primate
A relief to hear him , it is what I thought when I was a child.
This is comforting 🙏
Keep the prayers to yourself 🦁🦉
"I don't feel frightened by not knowing things. By being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell..."
This is why Feynman was so unique. Most of us either believe or don't believe but those of us that don't or are unsure are scared out of our boots at the prospect of why we exist and what happens when we die. But Feynam was different. He lived his life in the present and there is much to be said about that.
Aww. Should've included "possibly" in "as far as I can tell-possibly". Feynman adding that word is so brilliant and really underlines this uniqueness you mention.
i hope with time i get more of his nonchalant nature
im also one that is somewhat petrified at the prospects my mind has learned along the way
i still dont feel we will ever have enough time and i wanna know why
what a character!! The way he talks, explain and thinks,
mesmerising
It'd be better to have questions rather than wrong answers.
questions have no meaning without answers , a question by definition exists because of the need for an answer , and you can have both questions and right answers , this guy is not the genius you think he is , there is millions like him around the world !
@Мағжан Қайырболды or he didn't want to look for proof
@@ramzichouk4080 okay boomer . oops ads
religions are shit .what about Athism.
Let believe there is no god until he apper on Earth.
@@ramzichouk4080 Did Mohammed flew on the back of a white winged horse and used his sword to break the Moon into two? I wonder what Feynman would say about that?
@@aqabdulaziz did the universe as we know it begun as a singularity ? i do believe that even if it's more surreal than a man flying on a winged horse , also it's not literrally a winged horse it's what we call now a plane but it's not human made
Richard Feynman seems to have a permanent smile! How beautiful is that?
One and probably the biggest reason why Richard Feynman was one of the best theoretical physicists, was because of his wisdom.
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I think curiosity played a bigger part.
Prof Feynmans mind , the way he thinks is just phenomenal, he encourages thinking. No wonder his students admired him so much.
Though it's probably what he did not intend, he sounds more like a philosopher than a physicist...always a joy to hear his thought process.
Physics used to be referred to as Natural Philosophy. All science is basically just inductive reasoning establishing principles from empirical data
Samuel Alexander not many people know that yk
@@tensorwolf Exactly, and it's frustrating. Science is treated as the new religious dogma in our society, particularly by people like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. I like the fact Feynman is all too aware that there are many questions that can't be answered.
Samuel Alexander isn’t that the actual beauty of science? Like only developing certain frameworks which we are 100% certain of and leaving the rest for the future generations to figure out, unlike religion.
@@tensorwolf Of course. The crazy thing about science is its consistency. It almost seems as if the universe abides these certain laws.
I'm more of a spiritual guy myself. I think religion has no authority on metaphysical concerns, but I think mysticism and spirituality can offer insight into these troubling doubts that we have in life. Of course though, this is a very personal thing. I cannot expect to convince you of the deeper truths that I have experienced and understood in my lifetime and it would be silly to expect you to agree. After all, we don't know jack shit! The best we can do is ogle and wonder at the marvel that is this reality.
Feynman's text helped me understand and get through engineering physics. He had a gift for explaining that helped me begin to understand physics.
Which texts?
which ones?
Which text?
@@Shabudanalectures in physics (an edited transcript) vol 1, 2, 3
"they seem to be too simple, too provincial..." Nothing to add
Sounds like an agnostic. The idea of God is far beyond the reach of humanity. Humility I think is a better definition.
A highly intelligent person speaking with a new york accent is the greatest thing ever
When I left religion behind, living with doubt and uncertainty without fear took a while. But I'm there now.
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@@spencershaw2407 I've read the Bible several times from cover to cover. Boring and just a bunch of legends and fables. Even Jesus is probably just a myth.
@@utah133 YEA RIGHT NO YOU DIDNT HAVE TO READ THE KING JAMES AND YOU NEED SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU THAT IS SAVED CAUSE YOU IS A BABY
@@spencershaw2407 you seem very happy
@@spencershaw2407 AND YOU IS AN IDIOT
Less than 3 minutes and he successfully dismantled all religions!
Well done Richard Feynman 👏👏👏👏
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@@modytoto811 Pure bullshit video;) Our universe isn't in slightest organized all is chaos, we see it as organized, because we live too short. It's like would snow flake say, that he is organized before he had melted.
You hear gospel, I hear gibberish. Ultimately, he said a lot but it had no content.
I taught science in Ontario, Canada, about 50 years ago. Evolution was not part of the high-school science curriculum, but I ran an after-school science club. For the year-end presentation of projects, the Science club prepared a mural about 40 inches (one meter) wide and 50 feet long to illustrate geological periods from the pre-Cambrian to the present. The mural had names and dates for each geological period.
The club had a few fundamentalist Christians, obvious from archaic articles of clothing. But although evolution was a sensitive subject, American fundamentalist sects had not much spread into Canada back then. Canadian Protestant and Catholic Churches accepted evolution with only a few restrictions.
To introduce the subject of life through the ages, I never used the word "evolution". But I did read a few paragraphs from Genesis. I said that Genesis was a beautiful explanation WHY life exists that people can understand without knowledge of science. In science we try to explain HOW life has changed through time. We do not seek to answer whether or not there is a Creator nor the Creator's purpose in creation. These are not scientific questions. (This follows from Karl Popper's view that only theories capable of being disproved by scientific methods can be classed as scientific theories.)
(In Canada, there is no restriction such as in the US First Amendment. And the legal standard for teachers is to respect the religious beliefs of parents and children.)
I did not reveal that I am an atheist but said that I saw no conflict between religion and science because the purpose of each is different. I still believe that.
(Based on Popper's view of science, Creationism is a pseudoscience, NOT because people believe in a Creator, but because people believe that their belief in Creationism is NOT religion, but science. This is also the view of US Federal and State courts. To my knowledge this legal question has not arisen in Canada.)
The mural was a huge success. The members of the club managed everything, including the number of panels needed and who would draw and colourize each panel. All I had to do was provide a role of paper 40 inches wide (about one meter) and boxes of artist's pencils and pastels. And be present in the science lab after school where the children were working on their mural. And to make suggestions when asked.
I did not teach about Darwin's theory of evolution and in this way avoided controversy while filling a gap in the science curriculum and providing a foundation for later learning about evolution.
Did you teach Darwin's theory as if it were gospel (so to speak) or did you also teach the students the very cogent critiques of the theory (I don't mean "Creationism" but rather the other, more acedemic and scientific critiques)?
@@phaedrussmith1949 Did not teach any theory. It was a mural for an annual display of student projects. The theme was life through geological ages from 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic Era to the present.
If I had discussed theory, I would have discussed Darwin's theory, not the original theory but the "modern synthesis", which includes genetics and called "Neo-Darwinian Theory, now supported by dozens of sub-fields of Earth science and biology. S.J. Gould and Niles Eldredge had not published their ideas on punctuated equilibrium. Plate tectonics had not become a theory of continental mobility. Geochronology was in its early stage of development.
We may honour Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, but today an entire course in evolution can be taught with only 30 minutes devoted to Darwin. Same as a course in the circulation of the blood. William Harvey is passed over in one or two minutes.
A lot has happened in evolutionary theory since 1858.
@@fwcolb That sounds quite interesting and a worthy project for the students. Yet at the same time its pedagogy seems very similar to what the Christians teach to children with their concept of Creationism. It seems designed to teach children what to think, not how to think. In this regard I can see Vine Deloria Jr’s point in observing that science is a “secular religion.”
@@phaedrussmith1949 Not at all. Creationist's believe the universe was created in 7 days of 24 hours about 6000 years ago based on the genealogy set out in Genesis. (Reference to James Ussher's chronology below) Creationists dispute the facts of evolution: the appearance of new species, their extinction and replacement by new species.
The project I described illustrated geological periods hundreds of million years ago to the present, the extinction of many species and their replacement by new species. This is the raw material of paleontology, plate tectonics and paleo-climatology, the main sources of evolutionary evidence until the discovery of DNA / RNA and the more recent development of bioinformatics.
I don't doubt your literacy in evolutionary theory. but it is worthwhile to review the stance of Creationists and the history and geography of creationism.
Creationism was not a big issue in Canada in 1960. National religious organizations both Protestant and Catholic supported the "modern synthesis" by which Darwin's theory of natural selection was revised to include genetics. Even today, in Canada, Creationism is held mainly by Christian sects established by US missionaries. And by some Muslims, perhaps most Muslims, few of whom had emigrated to Canada by 1960.
With notable exceptions, Creationism is an American phenomenon shared with fundamentalist Muslims in several countries, mainly in Asia.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
@@fwcolb Yes, myself I hardly pay even minimal notice to “Creationism” except that it always creeps into the discussion as the pedestrian binary default into which the general discussion always seems to devolve (e.g., one has to either believe “Evolution” or “Creationism by God” there is no other option). In fact, there are many other options. As to the participation of religion in the discussion, by its own merits it can and should be dismissed quite early on in the discussion.
What I was attempting to convey is that when those who ascribe to “science” (whatever that is) and teach that “evolution” (Darwin and the progeny of Darwin) is correct, they are participating in the exact same mechanism of creating belief as the religion people are when they teach “creation” is correct. It becomes a pedagogy in what to believe, not how to think. That’s not education, that’s inculcation. Ultimately it leads to binary arguments which are little more than narratives of power used by competing kings (or whatever word is being used to describe one who believes he should have power over others for whatever reason or series of reasons). Ultimately no one is “thinking,” but rather everyone is “believing.” People who “believe” can be easily manipulated. People who think are dangerous creatures to structures of power.
John Trudell once noted that the revolutionary of the future will be the person who thinks.
In any event, my comment was not to be critical of your project, which I think was brilliant (and as a person who has taught in a classroom very reminiscent of the great teachers I have observed who truly care about the kids). In fact, the manner in which you were able to create intelligent synthesis between the creationist view and the scientific view is an excellent illustration of rising above the fray of the binary argument and by example teaching kids how to think.
Listening to him makes me wonder if there really is any difference among science, philosophy and a religious mind (free of religious organization) ...the ability to doubt and question without fear or seeking security in an answer is an amazing and rare capacity
"It doesn't frighten me." Thank you, Dr. Feynman.
Even if it didn't, to have some distorted belief - such as a lot of contemporary religions - it's problem, whether you dig deep in it or not. But to have a truly not distorted and even has lots of evidences belief, then it's the best (As it's in Islamic religion, you can search for "Sabighat" book to know some of Islam evidences if you want)
Also, do you know (the journey of certainty) playlist?
I love the way he talks about the universe with the accent of New York longshoreman, or as his friends said a bum.
What do you love about that?
I love it, too. It reminds me of Vince Gilligan (the creator of Breaking Bad and a Better Call Saul), who has a noticeable Southern accent, but who you know is brilliant just based on his works. I'm not saying Southerners can't be intelligent, but it's a nice contrast to hear a regional accent come from a highly intelligent person.
a person holding himself back, because he knows that most wont get it and abuse him as a heretic.
@@jdbarr769
For people like you maybe 😑
People who believe in religion are the heretics now a days - which is unfortunate- people should believe what they want to - after all, none of us have the answers to this strange thing called life
@@d1p70 oh you naughty boy!!! (hilarious)
Timothy Dexter people CHOOSE to do it ; to them, its not wasting their life, nor time. And I don’t get your analysis ? bank account? Explain. Moreover, you should be worried where our taxes are going, rather than how others get “exempt” from a few dollars; every dollar me and you pay (since i assume you pay taxes as well) contributes to war after war and a whole bunch of other wicked means - so while I agree, religion CAN be detrimental, it should not bother you about how others live their lives.. and btw only a SMALL percentage get exemptions from such activities
Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to imply since your response was typed - But it sounded like you were saying they (as in religious beings) are the ones wasting money and their time - which is why I don’t understand how that makes you dislike someone with a faith system
To whom wrote, Feynman was a moron I reply shame on you. I studied under professor Feynman. Thorough His teaching I found God. I cannot say unfortunately, if the Master had a PERSONAL relationship with the Lord. But I know in first person , that he mentioned God a lot!!!!!!Rest in peace Master.
Wow, this man is a total legend.
This guy was definitely worthy of one of Sheldon’s cats being named after him!
So well said. He expressed the way I think perfectly.
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I wonder what kind of world it would be if we had scientists like these as Presidents...
Research would be better funded for one. The benefits of that could be remarkable.
I would settle for a sane President, let alone a scientist.
Probably fascism
One thing about this man aside from his obvious genius is that he seemed to have such a warm and happy personality!
today I can stop my searching because of this deep quote by one of the greatest minds of all time, professor Richard Feynman............. " I don't feel freighted by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is by the way as far as I can tell " ......
What were you searching?
Believers say there must be a god, otherwise life has no meaning. Self-determination requires that the individual decides what his or her life has meant. The Universe does not owe us a god for our meaning.
Feynman was a great humanitarian.
Hell yeah, brother. I live in a country where you can get lynched for questioning religious beliefs, but I'm gunna raise my children as thinking rational beings :)
What makes science more rational above belief is that science doesn’t claim anything at all. It will give you a facade for the most probable outcome. Belief on the other hand works through insurmountable claims and zero evidence. In that sense, belief is atrocious and condescending over everything.
He was a great idiot
@@runnyb898 lol... Go Get a life you little piece of shit!! Haha
Not knowing many or even most things doesn't "frighten" me, but is makes me curious about it. If I really would like to know for a good reason, I might get mad that I might never know.
Pretending that I'm not lonely, by talking to a ball, doesn't make the ball alive and understanding.
We are specks of dust on a speck of dust and to think that we are anything significant is mind boggling.
I wish we had people as smart as this in our government
I’ve listened to this whole interview many time and it never, ever gets boring..ever
which is the way it really is as far as i can tell,possibly
Great part of the vid. Still staying true to how skepticism is the essence of his being.
A lot of his findings and learnings all point towards humans having no purpose in the universe, but aren't definitive. It's what he currently believes, but he's open to the fact that some scientific discovery might change that tomorrow and his view might evolve.
On balance , taking everything into account, having regard to the long history of the world and what's on it...Sir Humpy eat your heart out..God could not be like that....we don't know whats true...maybe there is no covid 19....a bad man to have around in these times.
Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein then Richard Feyman, those are the most important physicist for me.
I would recommend you add Wolfgang Pauli to your list.
Ok Che. And by the way. My name is Adolf Hitler.
@@gordonsirek9001 Wolfgang Pauli was an amazing Physicist who came up with spin theory.
you're dead like youre important physicists
And perhaps Maxwell....almost all of classical physics stands on the shoulders of Newton and Maxwell
"Being lost in the mysterious universe that has no purpose" facts
"If there were not in the streams of these words, but what doubts your inherited beliefs to delegate to the heart and not to mention the benefit, because doubts are the way of truth, who did not doubt did not look and who did not look did not see and who did not see remained in blindness and astray" - Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
@@markdavis7397 Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalal), small autobiography book - Oh! If we only know who is really Al-Gazhali...His people rejected his gifts, but hopfully others will pick them up...Humanity will always need someone like him...
@@markdavis7397 Thank you for enabling me to look further! In fact, many orientalists were fair about some historical events but some weren't. Impartial western sources have listed him among the 5 more influencing personality in all human history. If we need to speak relativity and space-time continuum, let's check El-Gazali. Foundations of ethics, pedagogy and psychology, check El-Ghazali. Cartesian doubt is actually Gazalian doubt ( you can compare by yourself "Discourse on the Method" and the book cited above, it's nearly a copy-paste). Even his contemporaries (whom most of them hated him as he's still hated today by their spiritual descendants, these unfortunate petrodollar-bred radical empty extremists) noted that he's remained loyal to philosophy and science till the day he died - I like Neil Degrass Tyson when he speaks about universe and stuff, but when he spoke about El-Gazali he seemed as an impulsive child, he just proved that he didn't read El-Gazali, he read about El-Gazali. They claim that he destroyed the Islamic science? Really? Is that El-Gazali that we know? Didn't you confuse him with Nizam al-Mulk? Actually, Mr. Davis, I've learned one thing that helped me a lot to progress in my life and my quests : Read humbly the devil's work but don't read the works on the devil. Finally, I can absolutely be wrong in everything.
Final note for my beloved fellow human Feynman who taught me a lot: Humans are not lost within the universes, universes are lost within humans! We are greater than we can imagine and there will be time to know that!
He has MASTERED the art of explaining
Science is the culture of doubt
Religion is the culture of faith
Richard feynman
Yeah, neither of those is correct.
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I was for most of my life a staunch atheist. It all seemed so obvious to me. I now regret expressing my views to others and the harm it could do. I now am an agnostic and keep my views to myself.
Said the man who just expressed his view. Oh, the irony...
I thoroughly hate religious people. The hypocrisy and ignorance, both in the soft and hard liners, is so immense that it boils my blood.
But then I think what my beliefs are with regard to the universe, and I realize I might be even more insane.
Since that realization I'm fine with religious folks. It's just too bad that it still influences politics and causes so much suffering. Oh well..
Why keep your views to yourself? Why not be honest and say you are an agnostic? Which is what I am and what I say.
There is no scientific proof for the existence or nonexistence of god. If the existence of god comes up in a conversation, I just say that I see no convincing evidence to believe it/he/she/they exist and I do not believe god exists but, in the absence of rigorous scientific proof either way, I could be wrong.
Feynman was an agnostic also, though it is not really apparent from this clip. Elsewhere he wrote what I just said: there is no rigorous scientific proof either way.
I knew it would get a rise out of someone who just couldn't help himself!
One day before my wife died and I was spouting off she turned to me and said simply; you know a lot of people really believe. It was then that I realized how hurtful my opining about my beliefs (or nonbeliefs) could be on a personal level.
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Very well said indeed. He's smarter than most people.
He’s smarter than most people in a RUclips comment forum.
0:37...Simply brilliantly summed up!
Even though I disagree with him when it comes to religion he’s still an absolutely extraordinary person, One of my favorite scientists of all time.
@AnonymousAlien2099 well one I believe in God.
Woww!! Watching him for the first time.. and this
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I totally agree with him, but in some way I look at the universe and just think:
All these amazing stars, this endless space, everything just coincedence?
Behind this beauty there must be something that we don't understand.
Of course, there was the big bang and everything expanded, but for me, there has to be someone who meant this, someone greater than us
I don't know if you can understand me, but that's the way I look at this
Why does there have to be anything separate to all of this? Could it not be that this is all just that divine nature understanding and propagating itself for eternity?
Samuel Alexander as I as can know, if that is the case then that divine isn't so divine
Or perhaps this require a deconstruction to what we know as divine or holy
@@themdapxe it's certainly indifferent to religion, that's for sure. Religion has virtually nothing to say on these matters in most cases
@@samuelalexander1014 can you plz just search on RUclips Quran and modern science and listen to that lecture with an open mind? I request you!!
@@samuelalexander1014 dr.zakir naik is the speaker.it will definitely change your prospect and i am sure it will help in the future and you can ask any further question to me!!!
This is a careful reminder of everything I believe in -- I revisit this every month or so, so glad to have walked the Infinite Corridor in the same steps as him, but would have loved to have met him in the tunnels and have a chat
ASPIRE TO TRUTH, GOODNESS AND BEAUTY AND REMEMBER THE TAO
When talking about certain beliefs and doctrines it never takes long before someone throws in the Tao.
'...it doesn't frighten me.' The genius soundbyte...
As a believer I can only agree with prof. Feynmann: his is a fully valid logic attitude. In fact I am convinced that true faith is the result of an encounter, since God is not just a tale or a set of rules imposed by religion but an event. A rational mind alone cannot acknowledge God unless God himself touches it.
i agree with Feynman, it's too local, we can't say the origins of the universe, at least all worlds/ doesn't come from the Sun. It's too provincial as he says.
I wonder how a conversation between Feynman and Peterson would look.
That would be interesting to say the least.
Even from beyond the grave his great mind is toutching the lives of free thinkers, so insperational. Xx
Excellent clip. A short and forceful rebuttal of religion
I guess we see what we want to see at times.
I am a deeply religious person and quite enjoyed Feynman's reasoning here.
This is what honesty sounds like.
FANTASTIC! I can live with doubt and not knowing. It is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. This is so PROFOUND and I hope religious nutjobs get to read this.
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Fynman's emphasis on doubt goes back to Descartes, who started off by rejecting everything he could doubt. Then he realized that he could not doubt he was doubting. He arrived at his famous statement: I think, therefore I am. Feynman needs to question whether or not his understanding of religion is adequate. Hint: It is not.
When I look at the edge
Oh it scares me.
Though I know I'll go,
Always go back.
If there was somewhere to go,
My boat wasn't holed on the reef.
And my lack of belief
In the truth I am seeing...
To you I'll tie
My inner eye
Which never, ever
Ever lies.
Leave behind
To seek
And find
Within
The things
You see.
If I may ask, who wrote this?
@@rahularvindshinde Lyrics and music by Allan Holdsworth ruclips.net/video/gfy0kxpGGsg/видео.html
Oh, I wish I could have been a student of his, or even met him. We need more like him--especially now. Well, admittedly, we are always in the darkness in some respect. It is the scientists, philosophers and thinkers who keep us out of the murk--at least to a degree--in any era.
Feynman makes me feel smart.
He is so relatable.
I think that’s why he continued to teach freshman courses at Caltech throughout his career. Surely, the school didn’t require him to do that.
@@tracy9610 He seems so humble and honest. Speaking in ways we can grasp as humans. Will certainly be listening to more of him.
@@tracy9610 To be fair, teaching difficult concepts to youngsters might have been part of what made him great. I believe it was him who said "if you can't explain something simply then you don't understand it well enough"... To teach youth who haven't fully developed their mental powers I'd imagine you'd have to teach them simpler than you would mature adults and so maybe to do this he was therefore required to understand better?
Every student is eager to learn knowledge from him. 😊
Richard Feynman was a true man of God, he feared not his own ignorance, and stayed close to the center.
You’re watching a man state he doesn’t believe and finds the arguments for gods existence to be fatuous in nature and you determine he is indeed a man of god? Wtf
@@liqritrs8391 The reality behind God is different than the idea of God. Standing behind a religious definition of God is dogmatic. Ask yourself, what do you think God means, how might it differ from what Richard understood it as, and then from what I understand it as. I believe he did not attempt to understand the dogmatic side of life, he focused on his studies and his love. So of course his definition of God would be limited to the dogma of those who speak of God the loudest.
Like a lot of Western philosophers and scientists he is very in tune with the Buddhist concepts without knowing that he is.
One of the key Buddhist concept is what is called "Don't Know mind" which is very similar to what Feynman here is saying what he says he is comfortable not knowing the answer.
Yeah. The buddha himself pronounced that whether there was a God or not, it is really irrelevant to his teachings.
The porpoise of life is unfathomable.
I often think that about sea mammals.
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I really admire this mind. :) Basically he all confirmed in this video what I was thinking for years.
Feynman was the finest...
Fear + Domination + Business + Arrogance = Religion
Jesus got angry at a place because they made it a den of thieves (like the catholic church is today for instance).
@@JoyDaz00 Who are you trying to fool? You know very well that all churches are dens of thieves, and that the Protestant churches are even worse than the Catholic church.
And then Jordan Peterson crops up, tells bedwetters to clean their room, and boom... we have religion again.
Felt a little vague and loose at first but by the end I was like "bingo!"
I knew Richie fen many many years. I miss ya rich
Could you explain in more detail? I would love to hear some personal stories!
How did you know him? Seems like an amazing guy
Well for one, we students called Feynman, "MASTER" (To his disdain…..) ( :
Fantastic human being.
A religious education provides a child with answers before he or she is old enough to ask the questions.
But a comparative religious education, along with humanism, will not stifle the questions.
A religious education fills young minds with fear and lies.
@Taqifsha Nanen Absurd. The very worst people are religious because they believe that they will be forgiven for all of the horrible things they do to their fellow human being. Add in the fact that they believe that their beliefs are superior to others and they become abominations. So shove that up your religion.
@Taqifsha Nanen I try not to argue with idiots. Goodbye. And keep your lies and fantasies to yourself.
Yes with genital mutilation allowed to carrying on! To remind them of that
I like that he is genuinely trying, he is right there, into it.
Well done, professor.
Like Socrates, Mr. Feynman has given us light and has taken our fears away.
he got his logic from his first girlfriend. he tried to explain it all through that moment. he loved her.
He didn't have logic before his first girlfriend?
@@1996Pinocchio nah but he might hate all religion because his first wife got really sick
that he truly liked alot.
@@1996Pinocchio sometimes age because of earths gravity doesnt help a brilliant mind achieve as much because they get older. and all lifes experiances rush in. especially when science took off after 1989 and people havent been able to keep up. he knew earths knowledge was about to explode into many things. maybe jealousy of not being able to see it. like him becoming successful in everything he did but his first wife got sick. hence.
and in his time women didnt really couldnt even vote so. different times. by 1976 everything changed so dramaticaly. americas values never did but everything changed. i just feel for him. thats all im saying.
@@MegaLynn11 Holy moly. I didn't expect that much of an explanation, but I appreciate it.
A great man. A genius. Few words and big truth. Thank you professor Feynman. We still love you.
God bless him
Which god?
@@tgstudio85 obviously the one from @doom slayer's fairy tale, lol
A beautiful mind
If people argue religion with me in the future I'm just going to show them this video and be done with it
Richard Pilhofer Nope :)
The video will incense them. Just use a few lines from the video and tell them that you prefer living in a world of doubting and challenging everything. And the idea of a heaven doesn't interest you. Usually shuts up a lot of people in my experience.
1 Corinthians 1:19 Already predicted this. Don't assume that since you have the ability to think a little more outside the box than most that you're suddenly enlightened above all wisdom, secular or religious. Rather, use that wisdom to keep searching for the Truth. All of us have around 80 years on this earth and science is constantly changing. God has never changed and he will not stop trying to reach you all until the time for judgment comes. I don't say this out of spite, but out of concern and love for you guys because I don't wish for you to go to hell and neither does God.
Taqifsha Nanen like Allah or Muhammad? Sure...
Everyone has opinions. In this video we heard Feynman's (interesting) opinion. But that's really it...
Interesting thoughts...but some people still think that faith and religion must accommodate in science worldview and think that a person who believes is a person who doesn't doubt. If we look to history of science we'll find a lot of great scientists who believe and doubt simultaneously and, I believe, because of that pursued the "truth" and made a lot of contributions to science and society.
Love this man.
"Those are the mysteries I want to investigate without knowing the answers to them" here in our land that has been the exact definition of "spirituality" since ages.
Soo cool yes sir
words of gold
Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong. 😂👍 Good one. They actually started with the answers, established them, then allowed you to correspond questions to those prepared answers. When wolves rule the sheep, this happens.
Please Read Quran and the biography of Mohamed peace be upon him in order to know what ISLAM is truly is not what the media propagates . There is a chapter called Mary and Jesus peace upon him is mentioned 25 times in Quran whilst Mohamed peace be upon him is only mentioned 5 times Ahmed is also one of his names . Islam means submission to God . ALLAH IS GOD IN ARABIC THE ONE WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE WHO DESIGNED US TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE BAD AND THE GOOD THINGS THE ONE WHO OFFERED US THE FREE WILL TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM AND SO WE MUST STRIVE BECAUSE SOONER OR LATER WE WILL LEAVE THIS EARTHLY LIFE TO THE ETERNAL LIFE Also check youtube channels like the Mercifulservant and Rational believer to learn more about Islam. Also search about scientific facts in QURAN .
The Clint Eastwood of Zen physics
Brilliant character and scientist. He has such a way of communicating it. To me-Mathematics-masks the wonder of creation upon which mathematics was created so.
genius
very nice & thanks MR FEYNMAN it is 2020 now I could have used this info back in the 80's but I will make sure my kids get it early.
What a legend.
Yo brother, we have the same profile pic.
@@bharathanand1762 Long live Nirvana , Long live Kurt, Long live Grunge.
@@rahulbarca4112 Nirvana ❤, Feynman ❤, btw where u frm
@@bharathanand1762 India , you ?
@@rahulbarca4112 Kerala, India
Wow. Mind blowing.