Showing posts with label Richard Feynman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Feynman. Show all posts
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Saturday, September 19, 2020
I did not know Richard Feynman had a brilliant sister.
Wall Street Journal
WORLD
OBITUARIES
Scientist Solved Mysteries of the Sun and Magnetic Fields
Joan Feynman, sister of a Nobel laureate, made her own mark in physics despite her mother’s doubts.
By James R. Hagerty
September 18, 2020
To be Richard Feynman’s little sister was an adventure. As a teenager, the future Nobel laureate paid his sister, Joan, nine years younger, a few pennies a week to be an assistant in his home science lab, where she was sometimes expected to endure electrical shocks. As a reward for her advances in arithmetic, he let her pull his hair and pretended it hurt.
He once awakened her in the night and took her to a golf course to see flickering lights in the sky. “He told me that it was an aurora and no one knew what caused it exactly,” she said later.
Richard Feynman helped develop the atomic bomb and won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965. His sister found an important, if less prominent, role as an astrophysicist whose research included explaining what causes auroras.
Working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other institutions, she also devised models to predict how many high-energy particles would smash into spacecraft. In 2000, NASA awarded her its Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. She died July 22 at the age of 93.
Dr. Feynman, who didn’t want to be completely overshadowed by her famous brother, recalled proposing a deal: “Look, I don’t want us to compete, so let’s divide up physics between us. I’ll take auroras, and you take the rest of the universe.”
Her work advanced understanding of what causes those natural light shows: Charged particles flow out of the sun in what is known as the solar wind. Most are deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field, but a fraction of them get trapped in that field and interact with molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, creating light waves visible in the northern and southern polar latitudes.
Though her brother encouraged her scientific studies, others didn’t. When she was eight years old, Joan was told by her mother that “women can’t do science because their brains aren’t made for it,” according to “A Passion for Science: Stories of Discovery and Invention,” a 2013 book edited by Suw Charman-Anderson. Dr. Feynman recalled “sitting in a chair and weeping.”
Joan Feynman was born on March 30, 1927, and grew up in the Far Rockaway section of Queens. Her father, a businessman, set an example with his own quest for scientific knowledge. He sometimes opened an encyclopedia volume to a random page and read whatever he found.
After leaving home to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman encouraged his sister to persist with science by sending her a college astronomy textbook. Noticing data in the book attributed to a female scientist, young Joan felt renewed hope about her chances for making a career in scientific research.
At Oberlin College in Ohio, she studied physics and met a fellow student, Richard Hirshberg. They married in 1948, and she spent a year with him in Guatemala while he did anthropological research. She earned a doctorate in physics from Syracuse University in 1958.
In the early 1960s, with children at home, she tried homemaking in Spring Valley, N.Y., where her husband was working. She became depressed and sought help from a psychiatrist, who prescribed work outside the home. She got a job at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and studied the Earth’s magnetic fields.
She later worked at labs in California and Colorado, alternating with periods of unemployment, while she raised three children. Her first marriage ended in divorce in 1974. She joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in 1985.
In 1990, during a conference near Sochi, Russia, she bonded with Alexander Ruzmaikin, a Soviet space scientist. He invited her for an early morning swim in the frigid Black Sea. To his surprise, she agreed. Dr. Ruzmaikin recalled that on the way back to the hotel they took a glass-walled elevator.
“Why is it transparent?” she asked.
“To keep couples from kissing and smooching,” he explained.
“Let’s kiss!” she said.
They married in 1992.
Dr. Feynman and Dr. Ruzmaikin published research linking the development of agricultural societies to a period of climate stability around 10,000 years ago. Before then, they found, climate changes were too frequent to allow for sustained farming.
She is survived by Dr. Ruzmaikin, three children and four grandchildren.
“When I went to college my father told me to learn to make a living because you never know what life brings,” she said in a speech in 2018. “Only men made good livings in those days, and so I figured I’d better go into a man’s profession. I chose physics and hoped to be some sort of an assistant.”
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Appeared in the September 19, 2020, print edition as 'Scientist Solved Solar Mysteries.'
WORLD
OBITUARIES
Scientist Solved Mysteries of the Sun and Magnetic Fields
Joan Feynman, sister of a Nobel laureate, made her own mark in physics despite her mother’s doubts.
By James R. Hagerty
September 18, 2020
To be Richard Feynman’s little sister was an adventure. As a teenager, the future Nobel laureate paid his sister, Joan, nine years younger, a few pennies a week to be an assistant in his home science lab, where she was sometimes expected to endure electrical shocks. As a reward for her advances in arithmetic, he let her pull his hair and pretended it hurt.
He once awakened her in the night and took her to a golf course to see flickering lights in the sky. “He told me that it was an aurora and no one knew what caused it exactly,” she said later.
Richard Feynman helped develop the atomic bomb and won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965. His sister found an important, if less prominent, role as an astrophysicist whose research included explaining what causes auroras.
Working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other institutions, she also devised models to predict how many high-energy particles would smash into spacecraft. In 2000, NASA awarded her its Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. She died July 22 at the age of 93.
Dr. Feynman, who didn’t want to be completely overshadowed by her famous brother, recalled proposing a deal: “Look, I don’t want us to compete, so let’s divide up physics between us. I’ll take auroras, and you take the rest of the universe.”
Her work advanced understanding of what causes those natural light shows: Charged particles flow out of the sun in what is known as the solar wind. Most are deflected by the Earth’s magnetic field, but a fraction of them get trapped in that field and interact with molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, creating light waves visible in the northern and southern polar latitudes.
Though her brother encouraged her scientific studies, others didn’t. When she was eight years old, Joan was told by her mother that “women can’t do science because their brains aren’t made for it,” according to “A Passion for Science: Stories of Discovery and Invention,” a 2013 book edited by Suw Charman-Anderson. Dr. Feynman recalled “sitting in a chair and weeping.”
Joan Feynman was born on March 30, 1927, and grew up in the Far Rockaway section of Queens. Her father, a businessman, set an example with his own quest for scientific knowledge. He sometimes opened an encyclopedia volume to a random page and read whatever he found.
After leaving home to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman encouraged his sister to persist with science by sending her a college astronomy textbook. Noticing data in the book attributed to a female scientist, young Joan felt renewed hope about her chances for making a career in scientific research.
At Oberlin College in Ohio, she studied physics and met a fellow student, Richard Hirshberg. They married in 1948, and she spent a year with him in Guatemala while he did anthropological research. She earned a doctorate in physics from Syracuse University in 1958.
In the early 1960s, with children at home, she tried homemaking in Spring Valley, N.Y., where her husband was working. She became depressed and sought help from a psychiatrist, who prescribed work outside the home. She got a job at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and studied the Earth’s magnetic fields.
She later worked at labs in California and Colorado, alternating with periods of unemployment, while she raised three children. Her first marriage ended in divorce in 1974. She joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in 1985.
In 1990, during a conference near Sochi, Russia, she bonded with Alexander Ruzmaikin, a Soviet space scientist. He invited her for an early morning swim in the frigid Black Sea. To his surprise, she agreed. Dr. Ruzmaikin recalled that on the way back to the hotel they took a glass-walled elevator.
“Why is it transparent?” she asked.
“To keep couples from kissing and smooching,” he explained.
“Let’s kiss!” she said.
They married in 1992.
Dr. Feynman and Dr. Ruzmaikin published research linking the development of agricultural societies to a period of climate stability around 10,000 years ago. Before then, they found, climate changes were too frequent to allow for sustained farming.
She is survived by Dr. Ruzmaikin, three children and four grandchildren.
“When I went to college my father told me to learn to make a living because you never know what life brings,” she said in a speech in 2018. “Only men made good livings in those days, and so I figured I’d better go into a man’s profession. I chose physics and hoped to be some sort of an assistant.”
Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Appeared in the September 19, 2020, print edition as 'Scientist Solved Solar Mysteries.'
Sunday, September 13, 2020
One of the aspects of God: That would be the Magic Jeebus Man.
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
-- Richard Feynman
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Some more Richard Feynman Quotes
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“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 uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“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 uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
Richard Feynman quotes
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
"And so altogether I can't believe in the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, to provincial. The earth, he came to the earth! One of the aspects of god came to the earth, mind you. And look at what's out there, it isn't in proportion." -- Richard Feynman
Thursday, December 19, 2019
I found this at another website. It's about the Christian assholes who brainwash children.
Imagine a Christianity Without Indoctrination
Suppose we re-categorized Christianity as an adult activity. It would be like smoking, alcohol, voting, driving, sex, marriage, and (in some states) pot—things that you must be mature enough to handle wisely.
How long would this adults-only Christianity survive? My guess is that, starved of its primary source of new members, it would die out within a few generations.
We all have inside us what could be called a BS Detector—that common sense that helps us believe as many true things and reject as many false things as possible. For example, present most American adults with a case for Islam or Hinduism or Sikhism, and they will be extraordinarily unconvinced in the same way that claims for miracle cures, alien abduction stories, and great deals on swamp land in Florida would typically be rejected.
As adults, we’re far better at sifting truth from BS than we were as children. And that’s why Christians must be indoctrinated as children, before their BS Detectors are mature. This is the idea behind the Jesuit maxim, “Give me a child until the age of seven and I will give you the man.”
(The full version ends with “… but give me the man, and he will say, ‘Dude, are you insane? Who would believe that??’”)
Getting a 50-year-old who’s never smoked hooked on cigarettes is like getting a 50-year-old who’s never heard of Jesus hooked on Christianity. It’s possible in both cases, but it’s far easier when you make the appeal early in life.
Imagine this conversation between the father of a 6-year-old child and the grandmother.
Grandma: “Little Johnny is old enough for me to take to Sunday School now.”
Dad: “You can take him when he’s 18, but I’d prefer he stay out of church until then.”
Grandma: “But 18 is too late! By then he’ll be set in his ways. He won’t accept the truth then.”
What kind of “truth” is it that must be taught before people are mature, before their BS Detectors are fully functioning? Grandma realizes that only before someone’s BS Detector is operating correctly can the beliefs of religion be put into someone’s head. This is a very poor stand-in for truth.
Many Christians will agree that Christianity needs access to immature minds to survive. But what does this say about the evidence behind the Christian claim that God exists?
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—
and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
Suppose we re-categorized Christianity as an adult activity. It would be like smoking, alcohol, voting, driving, sex, marriage, and (in some states) pot—things that you must be mature enough to handle wisely.
How long would this adults-only Christianity survive? My guess is that, starved of its primary source of new members, it would die out within a few generations.
We all have inside us what could be called a BS Detector—that common sense that helps us believe as many true things and reject as many false things as possible. For example, present most American adults with a case for Islam or Hinduism or Sikhism, and they will be extraordinarily unconvinced in the same way that claims for miracle cures, alien abduction stories, and great deals on swamp land in Florida would typically be rejected.
As adults, we’re far better at sifting truth from BS than we were as children. And that’s why Christians must be indoctrinated as children, before their BS Detectors are mature. This is the idea behind the Jesuit maxim, “Give me a child until the age of seven and I will give you the man.”
(The full version ends with “… but give me the man, and he will say, ‘Dude, are you insane? Who would believe that??’”)
Getting a 50-year-old who’s never smoked hooked on cigarettes is like getting a 50-year-old who’s never heard of Jesus hooked on Christianity. It’s possible in both cases, but it’s far easier when you make the appeal early in life.
Imagine this conversation between the father of a 6-year-old child and the grandmother.
Grandma: “Little Johnny is old enough for me to take to Sunday School now.”
Dad: “You can take him when he’s 18, but I’d prefer he stay out of church until then.”
Grandma: “But 18 is too late! By then he’ll be set in his ways. He won’t accept the truth then.”
What kind of “truth” is it that must be taught before people are mature, before their BS Detectors are fully functioning? Grandma realizes that only before someone’s BS Detector is operating correctly can the beliefs of religion be put into someone’s head. This is a very poor stand-in for truth.
Many Christians will agree that Christianity needs access to immature minds to survive. But what does this say about the evidence behind the Christian claim that God exists?
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—
and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
This is Richard Feynman's idea.
"Why do Christians never question their beliefs?"
The idea is people should doubt everything. Once they start doubting it gets harder to believe.
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Most Christians never question their ridiculous magical fantasies. Their childish bullshit is in the bible and the bible is the word of the Magic Man, so there is no reason to doubt it. They could question the "word of god" bullshit but that would be wrong.
I never met a Christian who wasn't a fucking retard.
The idea is people should doubt everything. Once they start doubting it gets harder to believe.
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Most Christians never question their ridiculous magical fantasies. Their childish bullshit is in the bible and the bible is the word of the Magic Man, so there is no reason to doubt it. They could question the "word of god" bullshit but that would be wrong.
I never met a Christian who wasn't a fucking retard.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Look at what’s out there.
"Does Christianity exist in alien planets?"
An interesting question.
There are countless trillions of solar systems in the universe. There could be numerous civilizations with creatures more or less like us. If this is true, would these planets have the same god bullshit problem we have?
Christians think their loving God is only interested in this middle-of-nowhere planet in a vast universe. And that's ridiculous. If Christians knew how to think they wouldn't be Christians.
So altogether I can’t believe the special stories that’ve been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. The “earth,” He came to “the earth”, one of the aspects of God came to “the earth!” mind you, and look at what’s out there. It isn’t in proportion!
-- Richard Feynman
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
-- Carl Sagan
An interesting question.
There are countless trillions of solar systems in the universe. There could be numerous civilizations with creatures more or less like us. If this is true, would these planets have the same god bullshit problem we have?
Christians think their loving God is only interested in this middle-of-nowhere planet in a vast universe. And that's ridiculous. If Christians knew how to think they wouldn't be Christians.
So altogether I can’t believe the special stories that’ve been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. The “earth,” He came to “the earth”, one of the aspects of God came to “the earth!” mind you, and look at what’s out there. It isn’t in proportion!
-- Richard Feynman
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
-- Carl Sagan
Monday, September 30, 2019
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Look at what's out there.
"If God is good and omnipotent why would he allow children to agonize and die of cancer?"
If I wanted to throw out reality and pretend a magical master of the entire universe was real, I can't imagine why the thing would be interested in this insignificant planet in a universe of countless trillions of solar systems.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
If I wanted to throw out reality and pretend a magical master of the entire universe was real, I can't imagine why the thing would be interested in this insignificant planet in a universe of countless trillions of solar systems.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
THE FEYNMAN SERIES - Beauty
A Richard Feynman quote about the Magic Jeebus Man:
"So altogether I can’t believe these special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. The Earth! He came to the Earth! One of the aspects of God came to the Earth mind, you. And look at what’s out there! It isn’t in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
"So altogether I can’t believe these special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too connected, too local, too provincial. The Earth! He came to the Earth! One of the aspects of God came to the Earth mind, you. And look at what’s out there! It isn’t in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
Saturday, July 13, 2019
I'm a big fan of Richard Feynman. I read 3 of his books. Here are two videos about him.
Wikipedia - Richard Feynman
Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics through both books and lectures including a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom and the three-volume publication of his undergraduate lectures, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman also became known through his semi-autobiographical books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think? and books written about him such as Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton and the biography Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Google Search by voice: How many stars are there in the universe?
"There are about 10 billion galaxies in the observable universe! The number of stars in a galaxy varies, but assuming an average of 100 billion stars per galaxy means that there are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 1 billion trillion) stars in the observable universe!"
A trillion a billion times is a large number. And that's just the stars we can see. Isn't amazing that here on this little insignificant planet in the middle of nowhere, a magical master of the entire universe would be interested in the human apes who live here. Of course that's bullshit. Even if the magic fairy was real, it would be virtually impossible for the thing to know we exist.
Every time I try to explain this to Christian fucktards, they don't understand. Christians are Christians because they are very hard of thinking. Or to be more accurate, Christians are fucking morons.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
A trillion a billion times is a large number. And that's just the stars we can see. Isn't amazing that here on this little insignificant planet in the middle of nowhere, a magical master of the entire universe would be interested in the human apes who live here. Of course that's bullshit. Even if the magic fairy was real, it would be virtually impossible for the thing to know we exist.
Every time I try to explain this to Christian fucktards, they don't understand. Christians are Christians because they are very hard of thinking. Or to be more accurate, Christians are fucking morons.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Another quote for my list of favorite quotes. This is about some bible thumping fucktards in Idiot America.
"It does get amusing seeing the butthurt of some bible thumpers when they condemn you to hell for not partaking in their fairy tales. It's rather hilarious/pathetic."
-- arni
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This is about the Magic Jeebus Man.
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
-- arni
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This is about the Magic Jeebus Man.
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
Thursday, June 13, 2019
What I wrote about the Magical Master of the Entire Fucking Universe.
"A truly caring God could not just sit and watch this chaos on Earth unfold without intervening. So either he doesn't care or he doesn't exist. Which is it?"
Of course the thing is not real but if it was real there would be no reason to pretend the Magical Master of the Entire Fucking Universe would be interested in the human apes on this insignificant planet in the middle of nowhere.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
Of course the thing is not real but if it was real there would be no reason to pretend the Magical Master of the Entire Fucking Universe would be interested in the human apes on this insignificant planet in the middle of nowhere.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman
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