Richard Feynman - Dinler Üzerine (Türkçe Altyazılı)
10 Nis 2022
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There are very remarkable mysteries about the fact that we are able to do so many things that apparently animals cannot do, and other questions like that.
But those are mysteries I want to investigate without already knowing the answer.
Altogether, I cannot believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large, because they seem too simple, too connected to the local, too provincial.
“The Earth, he came to the Earth;
one of the aspects of God came to the Earth.” Mind you, look at what’s out there.
How can it be?
It isn’t in proportion.
Anyway, it’s no use arguing—I can’t argue it.
I’m just trying to tell you why the scientific views that I have do have some effect on my beliefs.
Another thing has to do with the question of how you find out if something is true.
When you have all these theories from different religions, each with different explanations about things, you begin to wonder.
Once you start doubting—as you’re supposed to doubt—you begin to ask questions.
You ask me if science is true.
We say, “No, no—we don’t know.
We’re trying to find out.
Everything is possibly wrong.” That’s how we begin.
But try starting out understanding religion by saying, “Everything is possibly wrong—let’s see.” As soon as you do that, you start sliding down a slope which is hard to recover from.
So with the scientific view—my father’s view—that we should look to see what’s true and what may not be true, once you start doubting (which I think is a very fundamental part of my soul—to doubt and to ask), it gets a little harder to believe.
One thing is that 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 that 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.
There are many things I don’t know anything about—for example, whether it even means anything to ask why we’re here, or what that question might mean.
I might think about it for a while.
If I can’t figure it out, then I go on to something else.
But I don’t have to know an answer.
I’m not 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.
And it doesn’t frighten me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhe15ZfS2Q