 |
| . |
.
A way of avoiding the disease was discovered.
This is to doubt that what is being passed from the past is in fact true, and to try to find out ab initio again from experience what the situation is, rather than trusting the experience of the past in the form in which it is passed down. And that is what science is: the result of the discovery that it is worthwhile rechecking by new direct experience, and not necessarily trusting the [human] race[‘s] experience from the past. I see it that way. That is my best definition. ...
The experts who are leading you may be wrong.
I have probably ruined the system, and the students that are coming into Caltech no longer will be any good.
We live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television–words, books, and so on–are [sic] unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable amount of intellectual tyranny in the name of science. -- Richard Feynman 1966
