| − | | transcripturl= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Reading the Mind of God|author=Roger Caldwell|date=1995|publisher=Philosophy Now:Magazine of Ideas |url=http://philosophynow.org/issues/13/Reading_the_Mind_of_God|acceedate=June 13, 2013|quote=Stephen Hawking claims that with its arrival we could come to know “the mind of God”}}</ref> instead of following the [[Socratic principle]] and if applicable, acknowledge ignorance.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."'' [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2055:8-9&version=NIV Bible, Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)]|group=note}} The cautious observer naturally examines other alternative [[Explanation in science|explanations]] before accepting the proposition even as a working [[hypothesis]]<ref name="Observational Approach">{{cite web | + | | transcripturl= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Reading the Mind of God|author=Roger Caldwell|date=1995|publisher=Philosophy Now:Magazine of Ideas |url=http://philosophynow.org/issues/13/Reading_the_Mind_of_God|acceedate=June 13, 2013|quote=Stephen Hawking claims that with its arrival we could come to know “the mind of God”}}</ref> instead of following the [[Socratic principle]] and if applicable, acknowledge ignorance.{{#tag:ref|cf. ''“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."'' [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2055:8-9&version=NIV Bible, Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)]|group=note}} The cautious observer naturally examines other alternative [[Explanation in science|explanations]] before accepting the proposition even as a working [[hypothesis]].<ref name="Observational Approach">{{cite web |
| − | *I think it is very important--at least it was to me--that if you are going to teach people to make observations, you should show that something wonderful can come from them. I learned then what science was about: it was patience. If you looked, and you watched, and you paid attention, you got a great reward from it--although possibly not every time. As a result, when I became a more mature man, I would painstakingly, hour after hour, for years, work on problems--sometimes many years, sometimes shorter times; many of them failing, lots of stuff going into the wastebasket--but every once in a while there was the gold of a new understanding that I had learned to expect when I was a kid, the result of observation. For I did not learn that observation was not worthwhile. - [[Richard Feynmann]] <ref>{{cite web |author=Richard Feynman|title=What is Science?|url=http://www.southerncrossreview.org/32/feynman3.htm |accessdate=2012-11-07}}</ref> | + | *I think it is very important—at least it was to me—that if you are going to teach people to make observations, you should show that something wonderful can come from them. I learned then what science was about: it was patience. If you looked, and you watched, and you paid attention, you got a great reward from it—although possibly not every time. As a result, when I became a more mature man, I would painstakingly, hour after hour, for years, work on problems—sometimes many years, sometimes shorter times; many of them failing, lots of stuff going into the wastebasket—but every once in a while there was the gold of a new understanding that I had learned to expect when I was a kid, the result of observation. For I did not learn that observation was not worthwhile. - [[Richard Feynmann]] <ref>{{cite web |author=Richard Feynman|title=What is Science?|url=http://www.southerncrossreview.org/32/feynman3.htm |accessdate=2012-11-07}}</ref> |