Feynman on Science, Religion, and Doubt
Based on a video lecture. Video lecture: YouTube Richard Feynman was a Nobel laureate in physics, a participant in the Manhattan Project, and the author of the three-volume Feynman Lectures on Physics. He has long been one of my favourite scientists, and the reason is not only the physics. What I find genuinely appealing is that on topics outside his expertise — politics, religion, economics — he always said plainly: “I don’t know much about this, it’s just my opinion, feel free to ignore it.” He never lectured people on subjects where he had no standing. In our time, this is rare. ...