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• Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts. -- Richard P. Feynma
• and I realized, we did not live in a scientific society.
  -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988), "Cargo cult science...
• The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr.
  Teller is that the *time* it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong until he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!...
• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is thi
  the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988)...
• The are hosts of dopes here, and it is not good for my blood pressure
  uch inane things are said and seriously discussed that I get into arguments outside the formal sessions whenever anyone asks me a question or starts to tell me about his "work....
• 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 extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo pr The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II....
• Quote #642 There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy.
  That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion....
• Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of Art and of Science.
  If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science....
• 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 Feynma...