You are referring to Feynman, but you are misunderstanding his quote quite a bit. He belongs to the "shut up and calculate" camp of science, and tried to say th

You are referring to Feynman, but you are misunderstanding his quote quite a bit. He belongs to the "shut up and calculate" camp of science, and tried to say that it is not worth it to try to build "intuition" about a phenomenon so remote from the scale at which humans experience the world. Instead of relying on hearsay to reinforce your beliefs, I implore you to challenge them and read an intro science textbook on quantum mechanics. It is that theory of nature that permitted us to build the day-to-day electronics that powers our lives and our civilization, and it is empowering to understand it. "Theoretical Minimum" is a good set of free courses with video lectures for instance. Or if you prefer you can just continue with your self-aggrandizing pity and willful ignorance. It is true that there is a rat race in the sciences, but that does not devalue the amazing advances that science has nontheless given us. Edit: for the more advanced I would suggest reading the first few chapters of Sakurai's or Griffiths' Quantum Mechanics textbook - if you know math they explain how quantum mechanics works quite well. Or Aaronson'a Quantum Computing since Democritus if you are more interested in computational complexity.