“[I call myself] an atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying …”

“[I call myself] an atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.”

— Richard Feynman

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Response when asked whether he called himself an atheist or an agnostic. The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries by Denis Brian (1995), Basic Books, p. 49.

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Feynman, Richard. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Richard Feynman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

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