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Richard P. Feynman

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the

Richard P. Feynman

Hope

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Feynman is saying that recognizing what we do not know and accepting that we can be uncertain allows people to keep moving forward in their understanding and progress. Without this openness to doubt, human thinking tends to get stuck and stop developing, as has happened many times in history.

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