The Feynman Series: scientific…and spiritual (?)

This past February, the seven-part video series honoring Carl Sagan and his contributions to science was released, attracting the attention of scientists, spiritualists, and curious minds across the world. Now, Reid Gower, the maker of The Sagan Series, “has released a supplement…called The Feynman Series, featuring everyone’s favorite bongo-playing physicist,” Richard Feynman.

While Feynman himself was a self-acclaimed atheist, and the project itself aims to “promot[e] scientific education and scientific literacy in the general population,” watching these videos, one cannot help but become enveloped by some sort of spiritual sense of the world and its majesty.

View the first installment in The Feynman Series below, or check out all the videos here.

Amanda Kaplan is a Masters student at the Draper Interdisciplinary Program in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University, a consultant for projects on religion and the public sphere at the SSRC and a regular contributor to here & there.

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