Quote #532 Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out,

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• Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.
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• and I realized, we did not live in a scientific society." -
  Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988), "Cargo cult...
• The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr.
  Teller is that the *time* it takes him to figure out...
• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost,
  is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea...
• The are hosts of dopes here, and it is not good for my blood pressure:
  such inane things are said and seriously discussed...
• cargo cult programming n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
  A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the...
• Quote #642 There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy.
  That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred...
• Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires,
  where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question...
• The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
  Richard...