Richard Feynman warns against blind faith in science and urges critical inquiry to prevent intellectual tyranny.
“Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation (…) When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?” It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has shown.” And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments–but be patient and listen to all the evidence–to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at. (…) The experts who are leading you may be wrong. (…) I think we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television-words, books, and so on-are unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable amount of intellectual tyranny in the name of science.”
Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1965. He is considered one of the great physicists of the 20th century.
Feynman reminds us not to trust science blindly but to critically and patiently examine all evidence. Only then can we avoid intellectual tyranny.
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Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988) was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1965. He was also a remarkable science educator and famous for his entertaining lectures and popular science books.
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