Richard Feyman on the Centrality of Scientific Disrespect
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Also, relatedly, in “Biological Evolution Right Before Our Eyes” I say:
I get annoyed often these days reading or hearing people express their devotion to science but treating science as if it were an authoritarian enterprise. Saying one should believe in the scientists as if they were some kind of high priests is contrary to the spirit of science. The spirit of science is pointing to the evidence.