Richard P. Feynman
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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 uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask Why are we here? I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on 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 tell. ✨ Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out). Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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