“Every scientific law, every scientific principle, every statement of the results of an observation is some kind of a summary which leaves out details.”
Richard Feynman
The meaning of it all (Primary source)
Three provocative 1963 lectures exploring science’s relationship to religion, politics, and society, wherein Feynman champions skepticism and intellectual honesty as essential virtues beyond the laboratory, published posthumously in 1998.
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