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Card VIII-4: RICHARD FEYNMAN – Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Series VIII · Card 4 of 21 · THE SCRIPTORIUM

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

RICHARD FEYNMAN · WHAT IS SCIENCE? · 1966

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Source

“What Is Science?”, lecture to the National Science Teachers Association, New York 1966; printed in The Physics Teacher 7 (1969), pp. 313–320

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About the author

Theoretical physicist (1918–1988). Nobel laureate known for quantum electrodynamics and an extraordinary ability to explain complex ideas simply.

The question on the back

What would you like to understand rather than just believe?