Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (Primary source)
A devastatingly frank appendix to the presidential report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, wherein Richard Feynman exposed the chasm between NASA management’s optimistic reliability estimates and engineering reality, offering an unvarnished dissection of institutional failure that became a landmark in government accountability.
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“Knowledge is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow.”
— Richard Feynman“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
— Richard Feynman“I think that to keep trying new solutions is the way to do everything.”
— Richard Feynman“We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature’s phenomena will agree or they’ll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven’t tried to be very careful in this kind of work.”
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
— Richard Feynman“Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.”
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