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 :)
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 !
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!
@@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
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
@@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.
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
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.
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.
"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 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!!!
@@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?
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.
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.
@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.
Most replies here mention all the great physicists. Interestingly, why no mention of any born, say after 1950? Are there none? Of course there is but who are they? And why not known?
To me. Just the questions he asks. Knowing which questions to ask to get at the truth. How he answers questions. This man has to be the smartest person that has lived. 2:03 just the way he answers that solidifies that point for me.
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 hypothesis if the purpose of existence is: to lower entropy. The evolution of all things, even people, tends towards lower states of energy. I personally don't like the hypothesis but it is sound. I don't like it because I like existence and chaos and action for the most part
Not at all. For me, I belive in observable evidences on the truth of my religion, then by my religion's proved basis, its tenors is true. For evidences on my religion - Islam - search for book (Sabighat), it's available for free
It is okay to live with uncertainty but can I ask you a question? What if the answer was just in front of you and you know missing it will cost you much. Is it from the wisdom that you miss it and lose everything or stick to it and be satisfied with a probability of winning? Noting that religion doesn't cancel science which studies the variations of the universe. It just says that the universe has a creator. That universe we are still knowing anything for sure about it has a creator who loves everyone and created the whole universe for him.
@@minafawzy5086 you mean his death? Im not gonna argue anymore. Cause those are illogical. God or no god. Nature is itself a God. It creates, it ends.....the physics
So many religious people are frightened by not knowing. IMO, this fear is what makes them afraid of science. What happens if science disproves God? Yet if their faith were a bit stronger, they would realize that examining God's creation is one of the best ways to see God. One doesn't fear science might disprove God because faith assures us it won't. Therefore, ask away. Use scientific skepticism to explore your doubts, knowing that in the end that skepticism will lead back to God.
Being happy with uncertainty is uneasonable. Doubt and hapiness cannot live togother. You cannot be happy while not knowing where your car is heading you to. Binding your eyes, stumbling in the dark in the midle of the highway and still pretend not having fear is abnormal behaviour. Doubt might be a way in life not an end.
The thing about which Feynman was speaking is normal behaviour to have uncertainty about universe. From what do you have fear being alone in universe only with nature and maybe without God? Fear of that you are maybe just chemical reaction called living organism in this vast universe? Fear of dying and never again living (no eternal life)? Well I'l ask you this, did you feel excitement that you will be born before you were born? From observing non born people and dead ones, it's probably that being dead is same "feeling" as being not born.
He had doubt for The Universe and what's in it, and it's fun not knowing such big Hollow with nothing there and just look at them, cause since no one knows, what's actually there.......cause it's Easy for people to find out God, whenever they don't understand a thing, it's a Human Trait, and blindly have Faith in it. What Feynman said, is not out of fact, but the Fun of Not knowing, and be Clueless for awhile, and Enjoy Happiness of Knowing there's nothing
Humans must forever ask and seek ... because, with all due respect, i believe that to think you know something is disproportionate to your capability. :) #OdedMusic #OdedFriedGaon #OdedInformation #Audioded
A better scientist than a philosopher.... to say the universe is without purpose in a purposeful way is a contradiction and at best a antinomy. More Kant and perhaps some later Einstein may enlighten many doubters and deists. “I have,” wrote Kant, “had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith”
Good evening mr warner, you can call me Jim, and I disagree with your opinion, it is my logical conclusion that human gives purpose to things, things have the purpose that we attribute to them, in this universe at least, and there is no dimension with unchanging ethics and values, which is something deeply philosophical that many religious fellows believe. Try and deeply question everything and then try and choose the right beliefs for you from the start, also try and watch the following video: ua-cam.com/video/ODetOE6cbbc/v-deo.html
Jim, thanks for the reply and I will check out your link. I agree with you comments completely and they are very Kantian. I’m sure you have read the relevant parts of the greatest philosophical book ever, “The Critique of Pure Reason”, esp. the Antinomies and the arguments for the existence of God. I guess the pertinent meaning is how you define that undefinable word that means many “things” to many people. Most recently I was greatly influenced by David Berlinski’s remarkable book “The Devil’s Delusion, atheism and it’s scientific pretensions”. A must read for every scientifically mind seeker. God’s Speed (E=MC2?) and thank you ❤️🙏
Jimarious I watched the link and didn’t get very far. Will watch it in its entirety later. Seems childish if one is talking with one’s own professed delusion, if that’s the gist. I responded to someone’s anti-Christian hatred: Curse of sorrow Why the hatred for someone else’s beliefs? Can you scientifically deny someone’s inner beliefs based on their experience? Seems like your solipsism excludes other minds. Your perspective is so limited considering the infinite aspects of life and demonstrates a lack of sufficient imagination. Einstein himself praised the wonders of imagination over our finite knowledge that could fit in the period of this sentence. Your God’s Eye view of things seems ironic. Kant denied reason in order to make room for faith. You might want to read Berlinski’s great book “The Devil’s Delusion” to get a perspective that’s as vast as infinite space. Remember Hamlet’s words: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in our philosophy.” God’s Speed E=MC2, after all the Divine Spirit is for some is simply Mathematical.... what you call your most unprovable beliefs is up to you, so why deny someone else’s terminology?
Ah, so now we should all be like "doubting Thomas"? Do yourself the honour of calling it faith. It requires that it is not questioned, by definition. "Doubt ye not, therefore, but earnestly believe" is not even remotely compatible with the core scientific principle of testing.
Religion is local and provincial. St Augustine, in the 4th century, reasoned that God had written two books: one, the Bible, through inspired men; the other, Nature, with His own hands. Men are imperfect and, therefore, whenever there's a conflict, Nature is the right answer. Religion never recovered from people finding out that the religious people were telling lies: lies about Nature and about Religion. The last nail came when some people start to think that the paper book was the only true one.
Christianity has promoted testing since its inception. Faith is complicated, but biblically, it's largely defined as something which one is convinced of after having proved to oneself whether the teachings are relevant & beneficial. Hmu if you don't believe me
Where did the Flying Spaghetti Monster come from? 🍝👾🤔 OK, OK, he(or she?) came from the Spaghetti factory in the sky, or maybe the neighbouring universe!? 😀
I agree completely about religions with creation myths (i.e. the "religions of the book"), but I don't think it's fair to lump non-dualistic Buddhism in with the others because it' rejects the notion of a creator god and is based on radical skepticism: the sensory world (maya) is just the creation of the body, the mind/ego is a projection of the brain, etc. The goal is not to explain creation or find a purpose but to find peace and transcend the world of pain.
For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brilliant scholars, or have been written in fine books and embellished in fine language with finer covers, man, -all man- is still confronted by the Great Mystery. -Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota What savages! (; The first thing that I though was - Wow! That's honest and intelligent. Then I thought - I wonder what Richard would think?
Not knowing the answer is the fundamental corner stone of Judaism, I am what I am, and i will be what I will be - was the answer god gave Moses. As a Jew Richard should’ve known that. And maybe he knew, this why he was so smart.
When the scriptures of any religion are taken at face value as an explanation of how the universe was created, then they are going to seem like fairy tales when compared to the theories and evidence presented to us by science. This is to be expected since they were written well over 1000 years ago. My suggestion is to take a religion and strip away the archaic explanations, the traditions, the festivals, the seemingly absurd things it is asking you to believe. Once all this has been removed, look at what the religion is really asking of you. Question whether it is worthwhile. Will I be a better person for having followed it? Will I be a happier person for having followed it? Look at what modern science has to say on the subject. If, after examination, a practice seems to be worthwhile, then do it. If not, then discard it. Modern science and practical experience tells us that our happiness and well being is very much dependent upon the mindset with which we approach life. When stripped down to its core, religion talks allot about what is an optimal mindset. There is considerable overlap between the two. This is the beginning but it is by no means the end. It is a field of considerable depth for those who wish to pursue it.
Keep the worth of the religion in proportion to whether acting on it helps you, your friends, your family, your community, and the environment if you can manage all of that, and also if it is useful through time. Many religions have a emphasis on putting off temporary pain for longer term pleasure and that's interesting, in the stories of cain and abel for instance we discover the meaning of sacrifice. It's less a matter of if things happened, but if those stories did happen would that make us more moral and good human beings in relation to the future and others. It's also relevant to note that those stories as they were told were to convince the people of the day of moral principles and stories of how the world works, even rabbis and biblical scholars believe it's possible some stories weren't true, but were created to convince people of things that were true. Many things can be true that arent precisely concrete. Ideas and morals are more than true, almost hyper true. Numbers arent concrete but 2+2=4 is of ultimate truth, even when you dont denote or explain of what 2 and 2, producing what 4. It's hard to ever really believe that we can go through life completely on the basis of reason as morals and morality dont come yelling at you of their existence from nature or math.
@@marshallsamford3240 Regarding your comment about morals being "almost hyper true", the 20th century philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, said something along similar lines in his Tractatus Logic-Philosophicus (Logical-Philosophical Treaties). For example, Proposition 6.42 says: "Hence also there can be no ethical propositions. Propositions cannot express anything higher". Proposition 6.421 says "It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental.". Wittgenstein was working on the basis that the world as we see it is essentially a set of facts and language can be formulated as a series of logical statements which make a point using these facts. He concluded that there are things in this world that cannot be expressed through logic alone and, since language is essentially a set of logical statements, there are things that cannot be expressed using words. Proposition 7 famously says: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent".
A brilliant physicist no doubt. A nobel prize winner too. But when there is too much EGO and overconfidence in self, their is no room for G-d. Just look around, the world whispers of creation in everything that exists, if we can just quiet our minds and truly listen. I truly believe that professor Feynman had a change of heart in the end. For there are no Atheists in Foxholes.
@@michaelgrella275 You must be living in a dimension where at least one piece of evidence was recovered over millennia that even just remotely supports religious claims. I also find it interesting that you mention ego, when your position is basically that the creator of the universe has a personal connection with you, for which the cosmos exists.
I’m surprised a man of science would always say something is possible until it’s disproven. But he seems locked into the attitude that he can’t except religion or a God, and he should be trying to understand more and find commonalities.
This is what pushed me towards Zen - a religion full of doubt and questions, no answers. I think a lot of scientists, Feynman and Sagan stand out to me, probably Einstein, settle into the same general view of reality as a lot of longtime Zen people.
I am with this guy he was a good educators person his idea of reality it is outstanding he was an excellent person My position on this kind of believe of the invisible Man how can he exist without the components that we are DNA nothing without them exist how can he talk without vocal boys or see without eyes if he spoke the truth throughout his books they're not samples of somebody who is so powerful Genesis don't match with the formation of the planets remember in one day he create heavens and earth and there was no light when the sun came first and remember the light was made on the fifth chapter of Genesis When they invented the Bible the first thing they put in there you have to believe no questions asked So then they invented hell in heaven they reward you if you're a believer and you give money to the church they love that but if you don't believe and if you don't donate they send you straight to burn in hell what a nice way to blackmail people and we got religious by the dozens and God by the thousands and we have to put up put all these negatives We can do better if we have time to learn and educate ourselves and help others and we can save the money we give to this lucrative entities and give it to our loved ones we have to fight to clean our planet it's nothing by pollution these rats must go once for all
hell is the earth, heaven is the spiritual realm, not another place like earth. Bible is full of earthly parables to explain the real supernatural spiritual invisible heavenly realm's secrets. Luke 8:10 “And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.”
Tom Greene exactly and that's why Alber Camus said that THE fundamental and most important question in phillosophy is whether one should commit suicide or not. All other questions are just mere games people play.
I think that the way to look at events is to be unbiased but curious as to why life is as it is and realize that our life span is not long enough for one to learn the truth and if it really matters.One person's truth could be seen as a lie to another.the truth about religion can only be seen by a religious person not that it would matter to a non believer. Live life and enjoy it as well as you are able. Won't know the answer until we pass on and probably won't be able to inform the living of our findings.Personaly I feel that there is a creator but I am not important to be noticed by such.
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.
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
@@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. "
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.
"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.
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 !
what a character!! The way he talks, explain and thinks,
mesmerising
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
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.
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.....
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
A relief to hear him , it is what I thought when I was a child.
This is comforting 🙏
Keep the prayers to yourself 🦁🦉
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
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.
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
A highly intelligent person speaking with a new york accent is the greatest thing ever
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
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.
I wish we had people as smart as this in our government
"Being lost in the mysterious universe that has no purpose" facts
Science is the culture of doubt
Religion is the culture of faith
Richard feynman
Yeah, neither of those is correct.
@@mskidi 1:52
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.
i am frustrated as i cant click the like button more times
Woww!! Watching him for the first time.. and this
👆🤡👆🤡
@@matimus100 🤡🤡🤡
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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"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!
0:37...Simply brilliantly summed up!
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 UA-cam 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!!!
I wonder how a conversation between Feynman and Peterson would look.
That would be interesting to say the least.
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?
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.
I really admire this mind. :) Basically he all confirmed in this video what I was thinking for years.
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.
The porpoise of life is unfathomable.
I often think that about sea mammals.
@@InefficientCustard ded
We are specks of dust on a speck of dust and to think that we are anything significant is mind boggling.
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
This is what honesty sounds like.
Most replies here mention all the great physicists. Interestingly, why no mention of any born, say after 1950? Are there none? Of course there is but who are they? And why not known?
Maldacena, Hossenfelder, Tegmark
"Not knowing does not frighten me" - RF
"People should visit more graves" - Heidegger
To me. Just the questions he asks. Knowing which questions to ask to get at the truth. How he answers questions. This man has to be the smartest person that has lived. 2:03 just the way he answers that solidifies that point for me.
Fantastic human being.
Totally agree I gave up on religion at 27 it's just to primitive to be believed.
Exactly! 22 for me
The most intelligent answer about the topic I've ever heard
Interesting ideology
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...
A true adventurer
Interesting hypothesis if the purpose of existence is: to lower entropy. The evolution of all things, even people, tends towards lower states of energy.
I personally don't like the hypothesis but it is sound. I don't like it because I like existence and chaos and action for the most part
Heaven and afterlife is a fairy story for the people afraid of the dark.
Not at all. For me, I belive in observable evidences on the truth of my religion, then by my religion's proved basis, its tenors is true. For evidences on my religion - Islam - search for book (Sabighat), it's available for free
And do you know (the journey of certainty) playlist?
@@fa3il_5air72 Oh please show me this observable evidences? why is that no believer ever shown it?
Quantumphysics says it all...the uncertainty principle 😊
uncertainty principle is something we say about quantum mechanics. qm does not say anything.
@@1996Pinocchio
Didn't know you wouldn't understand the humor of the remark
K. IJs there’s no humor here dude, just your lack of understanding of physics
@@tensorwolf comedy is subjective.
And your taste is not superior to anyone nor your understanding.
It is okay to live with uncertainty but can I ask you a question? What if the answer was just in front of you and you know missing it will cost you much. Is it from the wisdom that you miss it and lose everything or stick to it and be satisfied with a probability of winning? Noting that religion doesn't cancel science which studies the variations of the universe. It just says that the universe has a creator. That universe we are still knowing anything for sure about it has a creator who loves everyone and created the whole universe for him.
I'm sorry, missing it costed him what?
@@nitin9922 His end.
@@minafawzy5086 you mean his death? Im not gonna argue anymore. Cause those are illogical. God or no god. Nature is itself a God. It creates, it ends.....the physics
I wish I believed in a soul ... because he would be my soulmate.
Goid news. You ARE a soul.
Feynman said "my soul".
I love this man.
words of gold
My super Hero.
So many religious people are frightened by not knowing. IMO, this fear is what makes them afraid of science. What happens if science disproves God?
Yet if their faith were a bit stronger, they would realize that examining God's creation is one of the best ways to see God. One doesn't fear science might disprove God because faith assures us it won't.
Therefore, ask away. Use scientific skepticism to explore your doubts, knowing that in the end that skepticism will lead back to God.
DR. Feynman anymore Integration tricks?
Being happy with uncertainty is uneasonable. Doubt and hapiness cannot live togother. You cannot be happy while not knowing where your car is heading you to. Binding your eyes, stumbling in the dark in the midle of the highway and still pretend not having fear is abnormal behaviour. Doubt might be a way in life not an end.
The thing about which Feynman was speaking is normal behaviour to have uncertainty about universe. From what do you have fear being alone in universe only with nature and maybe without God? Fear of that you are maybe just chemical reaction called living organism in this vast universe? Fear of dying and never again living (no eternal life)? Well I'l ask you this, did you feel excitement that you will be born before you were born? From observing non born people and dead ones, it's probably that being dead is same "feeling" as being not born.
He had doubt for The Universe and what's in it, and it's fun not knowing such big Hollow with nothing there and just look at them, cause since no one knows, what's actually there.......cause it's Easy for people to find out God, whenever they don't understand a thing, it's a Human Trait, and blindly have Faith in it.
What Feynman said, is not out of fact, but the Fun of Not knowing, and be Clueless for awhile, and Enjoy Happiness of Knowing there's nothing
@@Hury209 yup. Your ending's right
Feynman was one of the greatest men who ever lived
Humans must forever ask and seek ...
because, with all due respect, i believe that to think you know something is disproportionate to your capability. :)
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Who knows where I can find this full interview ??
It's on BBC
I think pleasure of finding things
Or something
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@@modytoto811 Congrats on destroying your channel!
@@stevenkelby2169 Thank you very much for watching it!
@@modytoto811 I didn't, but I did report all the spam you leave everywhere!
A better scientist than a philosopher.... to say the universe is without purpose in a purposeful way is a contradiction and at best a antinomy. More Kant and perhaps some later Einstein may enlighten many doubters and deists.
“I have,” wrote Kant, “had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith”
Good evening mr warner, you can call me Jim, and I disagree with your opinion, it is my logical conclusion that human gives purpose to things, things have the purpose that we attribute to them, in this universe at least, and there is no dimension with unchanging ethics and values, which is something deeply philosophical that many religious fellows believe. Try and deeply question everything and then try and choose the right beliefs for you from the start, also try and watch the following video: ua-cam.com/video/ODetOE6cbbc/v-deo.html
Jim, thanks for the reply and I will check out your link. I agree with you comments completely and they are very Kantian. I’m sure you have read the relevant parts of the greatest philosophical book ever, “The Critique of Pure Reason”, esp. the Antinomies and the arguments for the existence of God. I guess the pertinent meaning is how you define that undefinable word that means many “things” to many people. Most recently I was greatly influenced by David Berlinski’s remarkable book “The Devil’s Delusion, atheism and it’s scientific pretensions”. A must read for every scientifically mind seeker. God’s Speed (E=MC2?) and thank you ❤️🙏
Jimarious I watched the link and didn’t get very far. Will watch it in its entirety later. Seems childish if one is talking with one’s own professed delusion, if that’s the gist. I responded to someone’s anti-Christian hatred:
Curse of sorrow Why the hatred for someone else’s beliefs? Can you scientifically deny someone’s inner beliefs based on their experience? Seems like your solipsism excludes other minds. Your perspective is so limited considering the infinite aspects of life and demonstrates a lack of sufficient imagination. Einstein himself praised the wonders of imagination over our finite knowledge that could fit in the period of this sentence. Your God’s Eye view of things seems ironic. Kant denied reason in order to make room for faith. You might want to read Berlinski’s great book “The Devil’s Delusion” to get a perspective that’s as vast as infinite space. Remember Hamlet’s words: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in our philosophy.” God’s Speed E=MC2, after all the Divine Spirit is for some is simply Mathematical.... what you call your most unprovable beliefs is up to you, so why deny someone else’s terminology?
It’s not because he is good at physics that we take everything he says for granted🤔
Speak for yourself. I don't take anything he, or anyone else, says for granted. I happen to agree with most of what he says here.
1 Thessalonians 5:21 CEV
Put everything to the test.
We, the christians believe in testing everything because we know whats the truth.
Jesus was real.
You "KNOW THE TRUTH"? An example of the arragonce of certainty.
Ah, so now we should all be like "doubting Thomas"? Do yourself the honour of calling it faith. It requires that it is not questioned, by definition. "Doubt ye not, therefore, but earnestly believe" is not even remotely compatible with the core scientific principle of testing.
Religion is local and provincial. St Augustine, in the 4th century, reasoned that God had written two books: one, the Bible, through inspired men; the other, Nature, with His own hands. Men are imperfect and, therefore, whenever there's a conflict, Nature is the right answer. Religion never recovered from people finding out that the religious people were telling lies: lies about Nature and about Religion. The last nail came when some people start to think that the paper book was the only true one.
I thought this was going to be the one where he talks about how the pope is just a guy in a pope costume.
With a funny hat.
Christianity has promoted testing since its inception.
Faith is complicated, but biblically, it's largely defined as something which one is convinced of after having proved to oneself whether the teachings are relevant & beneficial.
Hmu if you don't believe me
@@duncanhw I would ask what do their scriptures say specifically about this openness to testing
The guy with no fear of existential crisis and purpose of life.......thats what enlightenment is all about isn't it..
"Verily, the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most people do not know." 40:57 Quran
No evidence for me and I’m not convinced unfortunately sir, although believe what you want and enjoy your life
@@salazarklopp3732 ua-cam.com/video/ZVh4DYGqSZs/v-deo.html Watch this for one
طه أحمد Why are you citing fables?
Economics Induced Ive watched it and it’s irrelevant. I understand the physics of the universe and it doesn’t point to a deity
@@salazarklopp3732 And how is that?
Hats off to the great explainer of science Richard Phillip feynman on his birthday.
Freeligion is not free some of us burn while others get champagne instead of pain when we die
You have offended the flying spaghetti monster. Do you not see how he made you in his noodley image?
Where did the Flying Spaghetti Monster come from? 🍝👾🤔
OK, OK, he(or she?) came from the Spaghetti factory in the sky, or maybe the neighbouring universe!? 😀
I agree completely about religions with creation myths (i.e. the "religions of the book"), but I don't think it's fair to lump non-dualistic Buddhism in with the others because it' rejects the notion of a creator god and is based on radical skepticism: the sensory world (maya) is just the creation of the body, the mind/ego is a projection of the brain, etc. The goal is not to explain creation or find a purpose but to find peace and transcend the world of pain.
Priest. : give me money every week and I will promise you a place in heaven.
This is so GREAT !
For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brilliant scholars, or have been written in fine books and embellished in fine language with finer covers, man, -all man- is still confronted by the Great Mystery.
-Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota
What savages! (;
The first thing that I though was - Wow! That's honest and intelligent.
Then I thought - I wonder what Richard would think?
Not knowing the answer is the fundamental corner stone of Judaism, I am what I am, and i will be what I will be - was the answer god gave Moses. As a Jew Richard should’ve known that. And maybe he knew, this why he was so smart.
science meets Socrates
Very few people can understand this. Some may say yes because he is very famous personality.
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The best video I have watched in a year.
Richard is the deservable person of physics
When the scriptures of any religion are taken at face value as an explanation of how the universe was created, then they are going to seem like fairy tales when compared to the theories and evidence presented to us by science. This is to be expected since they were written well over 1000 years ago. My suggestion is to take a religion and strip away the archaic explanations, the traditions, the festivals, the seemingly absurd things it is asking you to believe. Once all this has been removed, look at what the religion is really asking of you. Question whether it is worthwhile. Will I be a better person for having followed it? Will I be a happier person for having followed it? Look at what modern science has to say on the subject. If, after examination, a practice seems to be worthwhile, then do it. If not, then discard it.
Modern science and practical experience tells us that our happiness and well being is very much dependent upon the mindset with which we approach life. When stripped down to its core, religion talks allot about what is an optimal mindset. There is considerable overlap between the two. This is the beginning but it is by no means the end. It is a field of considerable depth for those who wish to pursue it.
Keep the worth of the religion in proportion to whether acting on it helps you, your friends, your family, your community, and the environment if you can manage all of that, and also if it is useful through time. Many religions have a emphasis on putting off temporary pain for longer term pleasure and that's interesting, in the stories of cain and abel for instance we discover the meaning of sacrifice. It's less a matter of if things happened, but if those stories did happen would that make us more moral and good human beings in relation to the future and others. It's also relevant to note that those stories as they were told were to convince the people of the day of moral principles and stories of how the world works, even rabbis and biblical scholars believe it's possible some stories weren't true, but were created to convince people of things that were true. Many things can be true that arent precisely concrete. Ideas and morals are more than true, almost hyper true. Numbers arent concrete but 2+2=4 is of ultimate truth, even when you dont denote or explain of what 2 and 2, producing what 4. It's hard to ever really believe that we can go through life completely on the basis of reason as morals and morality dont come yelling at you of their existence from nature or math.
@@marshallsamford3240 Regarding your comment about morals being "almost hyper true", the 20th century philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, said something along similar lines in his Tractatus Logic-Philosophicus (Logical-Philosophical Treaties). For example, Proposition 6.42 says: "Hence also there can be no ethical propositions. Propositions cannot express anything higher". Proposition 6.421 says "It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental.". Wittgenstein was working on the basis that the world as we see it is essentially a set of facts and language can be formulated as a series of logical statements which make a point using these facts. He concluded that there are things in this world that cannot be expressed through logic alone and, since language is essentially a set of logical statements, there are things that cannot be expressed using words. Proposition 7 famously says: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent".
A perfect example on how to be genius and stupid at the same time!
A brilliant physicist no doubt. A nobel prize winner too. But when there is too much EGO and overconfidence in self, their is no room for G-d. Just look around, the world whispers of creation in everything that exists, if we can just quiet our minds and truly listen. I truly believe that professor Feynman had a change of heart in the end. For there are no Atheists in Foxholes.
@@michaelgrella275 You must be living in a dimension where at least one piece of evidence was recovered over millennia that even just remotely supports religious claims. I also find it interesting that you mention ego, when your position is basically that the creator of the universe has a personal connection with you, for which the cosmos exists.
He is amazing!
ok boomer
Says the idiot blindly insulting him for being an atheist
My man did NOT just call doctor Feynman a boomer. Meme misappropriation.
Has anyone else noticed that the expression "OK Boomer" says more about the speaker?
@@cuzndupre2822 no
@@cuzndupre2822 Ok boomer
I’m surprised a man of science would always say something is possible until it’s disproven. But he seems locked into the attitude that he can’t except religion or a God, and he should be trying to understand more and find commonalities.
Stephen Turner ok I get it your afraid . I am a scientist engineer.
Stephen Turner cool!
truth is simple. WE are god and Jesus asks us to be like him
Anyone know what year this was?
5 dislikes: a Budhist, a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew walks into a bar. The fifth was a drunk bartender.
Why would a Buddhist dislike this?
What in it is against the teachings of Buddha?
Buddism is agonistic.
I just got me a new hero.
الحمد لله الذي جلعني مسلما
Everything is possible, but not everything is probable...
Science, well integrated, teaches us to dance with the mystery.
Religion, by having all the answers, has none.
This is what pushed me towards Zen - a religion full of doubt and questions, no answers. I think a lot of scientists, Feynman and Sagan stand out to me, probably Einstein, settle into the same general view of reality as a lot of longtime Zen people.
I am with this guy he was a good educators person his idea of reality it is outstanding he was an excellent person
My position on this kind of believe of the invisible Man how can he exist without the components that we are DNA nothing without them exist how can he talk without vocal boys or see without eyes if he spoke the truth throughout his books they're not samples of somebody who is so powerful Genesis don't match with the formation of the planets remember in one day he create heavens and earth and there was no light when the sun came first and remember the light was made on the fifth chapter of Genesis
When they invented the Bible the first thing they put in there you have to believe no questions asked
So then they invented hell in heaven they reward you if you're a believer and you give money to the church they love that but if you don't believe and if you don't donate they send you straight to burn in hell what a nice way to blackmail people and we got religious by the dozens and God by the thousands and we have to put up put all these negatives
We can do better if we have time to learn and educate ourselves and help others and we can save the money we give to this lucrative entities and give it to our loved ones we have to fight to clean our planet it's nothing by pollution these rats must go once for all
hell is the earth, heaven is the spiritual realm, not another place like earth. Bible is full of earthly parables to explain the real supernatural spiritual invisible heavenly realm's secrets.
Luke 8:10
“And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.”
"To be lost in the universe without any purpose which is the way it is as far as i can tell possibly". 😂😂😂😂😂. No comment.
None required!
Isn't finding out our purpose also a purpose of our lives? No? Ok I'll leave you to it then. Have a nice day!
Tom Greene exactly and that's why Alber Camus said that THE fundamental and most important question in phillosophy is whether one should commit suicide or not. All other questions are just mere games people play.
I like the way he thinks about this subject
I think that the way to look at events is to be unbiased but curious as to why life is as it is and realize that our life span is not long enough for one to learn the truth and if it really matters.One person's truth could be seen as a lie to another.the truth about religion can only be seen by a religious person not that it would matter to a non believer. Live life and enjoy it as well as you are able. Won't know the answer until we pass on and probably won't be able to inform the living of our findings.Personaly I feel that there is a creator but I am not important to be noticed by such.
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.
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
There's no shame in not knowing everything - it's in not wanting to.
BULLSEYE.
But eventually the wanting burns itself out. ;)
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. "
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.