Richard P. Feynman Quotes about Atheism

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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Richard P. Feynman

Religious, Religion, Atheism

"Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, June 16, 1988.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Richard P. Feynman

Atheism, Trying, Way

"What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society". Lecture at the Galileo Symposium, Italy, 1964.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

Richard P. Feynman

Understanding, Religion, Atheism

Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!"

Richard P. Feynman

Men, Mcdonalds, Atheism

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

Richard P. Feynman

Atheism, Able, Physics

Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.116, Hachette UK

No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.

Richard P. Feynman

Thinking, Nurse, Atheism