“The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”
Richard Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Primary source)
Feynman’s poignant final memoir interweaving tender remembrances of his first wife Arlene’s death from tuberculosis with his determined investigation of the Challenger disaster, revealing both personal vulnerability and professional integrity.
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