“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
Albert Einstein (verified)
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“Ideology does some strange things and distorts cognition terribly. If you get a lot of heavy ideology young, and then you start expressing it, you are really locking your brain into a very unfortunate pattern. And you are going to distort your general cognition.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
— Ayn Rand (unverified)“I’m afraid that’s the way it [reality] is. If there are twenty factors and they interact some, you’ll have to learn to handle it—because that’s the way the world is. But you won’t find it that hard if you go at it Darwin-like, step by step with curious persistence. You’ll be amazed at how good you can get.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)Science Cause and Effect Humility Technology Public Relations