"Y'see, one thing is, 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 certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely
sure of anything, and on 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. I might think about it a little bit, 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, possibly. It doesn't frighten me."
-- Richard Feynman, BBC Interview
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