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.
In other fields, such as business, it's different. For example, almost every
advertisement you see is obviously designed, in some way or another, to fool
the customer: the print that they don't want you to read is small; the
statements are written in an obscure way. It is obvious to anybody that the
product is not being presented in a scientific and balanced way. Therefore,
in the selling business, there's a lack of integrity.
-- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988),
-- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
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.
In other fields, such as business, it's different. For example, almost every
advertisement you see is obviously designed, in some way or another, to fool
the customer: the print that they don't want you to read is small; the
statements are written in an obscure way. It is obvious to anybody that the
product is not being presented in a scientific and balanced way. Therefore,
in the selling business, there's a lack of integrity.
-- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988),
-- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
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