Share, Feynman was speaking as a scientist. That is, he did not want to make assumptions that may be wrong. IMO, he was saying that for certain important questions, he would rather consider the possible answers as conjectures rather than as scientific facts, which must be proven to be true.
JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Personally I think Richard Feynman would fit in perfectly here at FFL! > Meaning, what the heck did he mean by that double talk about having answers > that might be wrong! That's part of the uncertainty that he allegedly > likes, isn't it?! Nothing is 100% right or wrong, right? ha ha, that came > out all by itself! Other than that, it's a great quote, thank you. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: salyavin808 <fintlewoodlewix@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:51 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: SELF-HYPNOTIZE: Channel, End Negativity, Feel > Good, Achieve Goals Dr. Shelley S > > > >  > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > Well that prickly pear fruit is my kind of fruit, very versatile.àNot > > only can be ingested as food or intoxicant, but can also be used as dye or > > wall plaster.àGives whole new meaning to phrase getting plastered.à> > Blame wiki for info and me for lame joke (-: > > I didn't know about the dye and I didn't fancy any when I was there > after a friend said he spent 3 days hallucinating, and proper > hallucinations of people that weren't there. He said it was hell. > And I always liked a good time at parties so I gave it a miss! > > > Ok, getting more serious, stuff gets simpler and simpler as we go smaller > > and smaller so that, as you say, subatomic particles are almost nothing at > > all.àBut what is even MORE almost nothing at all?àThe whirly > > bits?àVibrating strings?àGod?àMaybe it's just hard for the fat > > and water and electrical events in our skulls to grok nothing? > > Very hard. You can't even imagine nothing mathematically, Einstein failed in > his quest for the unified field so I'm not even going to > bother trying as I need both hands to count my toes. > > I like what top physicist and bongo player Richard Feynman said: > > "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much > more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be > wrong." > > http://www.notable-quotes.com/f/feynman_richard.html >