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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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
— 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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“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
— Leonardo da Vinci“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code, but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.”
— Tony Hoare“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci“Never leave till tomorrow what you can do today.”
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