“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.” HeartMayGovernmentSpiritNotionExperimentsIndividualismRuggedAmerican SpiritRugged IndividualismHuffing Author:Charlie Pierce
“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.” MayMeanPlayArtistAttitudeAudienceMajorityExperimentsFixedArranging Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.” IfsKindMayCareMissingHavensTheoryTypeFoolIntegrityFameResearchGainsScientistAgreeCarefulExperimentsReputationExcitementRepeatsTemporaryDisagreeCultCargoGood ReputationWrong Or RightTruth Will Come Out Author:Richard P. Feynman
“A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.” ThinkingMindMayPurposePlansTheoryCapacityLogicExperimentsLogicalPuzzlesTestedPhysical Science Book:Foundations of Logic, 1903-05 Source: Foundations of Logic, 1903-05