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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
- Richard Feynman (Theoretical Physicist)
I am quite a Richard Feynman fan.
I will now treat you to pearls of wisdom by this fantastic theoretical physicist.
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: "you don't know what you are talking about!". The second one says: "what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?"
And I dedicate this to my old physics teacher Mr. Atkinson:
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
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