Monday, June 11, 2012

"So I have just one wish for you--the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom."

The above is the concluding paragraph of Feynman talking about  cargo cult science.
In 1996, when I first read this, it set me on fire, ready to go tilting at windmills.
Now, I chanced upon it again, and it reminds me of still how relevant those words are, and how far astray flows the stream of life from it

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