Saturday, December 29, 2007

the truth will come out

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. And it’s this
type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing
to a large extent in much of the research in “cargo cult” science.- Richard Feynman

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