Richard P. Feynman Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheism, Trying, Way

  "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society". Lecture at the Galileo Symposium, Italy, 1964.

• God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, June 16, 1988.

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

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheist, Drama, Struggle

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

• In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheist, Kids, Interesting

• Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

• No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Nurse, Atheism

• Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Men, Mcdonalds, Atheism

• I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Law, Atheism

  "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, 1988.

• As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheism, Able, Physics

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.116, Hachette UK

• During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas - which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Crazy, Ideas, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.338, W. W. Norton & Company

• By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Honesty, Mean, Intelligent

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