marxus comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong
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Nice. Do you have a source for that? Google didn't come up with much.
My source was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4 is an autotuned piece which includes footage of Feynman speaking those words, but it looks like it's from interviews with BBC's Horizon.
See under "Doubt and uncertainty":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/index_textonly.shtml
Tch! And the transcript makes it plain that I have been fooled by video editing. I suggest then the following replacement:
"...I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious Universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me." - RPF