It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different 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.
- Richard Feynman*
* Rock's note about this All-American hero: On May 1, 1959, Bill Stout of television station KNXT interviewed Richard Feynman and the soon to be Nobel Prize winning (1965) theoretical physicist uttered the words above.
Those were harsh times for Atheists in the USA and anyone giving air time or ink to their beliefs. KNXT felt the need (in the words of James Gleick, noted Feynman biographer) "to suppress the interview".
The interview did not run, until after Feynman had been asked to redo the interview and Feynman wrote back to station management objecting to a "direct censorship of the expression of my views."
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