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| − | 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> |
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| + | *[[Dirac]] once said: "That which is not observable does not exist."<ref name="Quantized Quasars">{{cite web | ||
| + | |title=Quantized quasar redshifts in a creationist cosmology | ||
| + | |author=John Hartnett | ||
| + | |publisher=Technical Journal (present-day Journal of Creation) | ||
| + | |volume=18 | ||
| + | |issue=2 | ||
| + | |pages=109 | ||
| + | |year=2004 | ||
| + | |url=http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j18_2/j18_2_105-113.pdf | ||
| + | |accessdate=2012-1015}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 21:04, June 12, 2013
- 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 [1]
References
- ↑ Richard Feynman. What is Science?. Retrieved on 2012-11-07.
- ↑ John Hartnett (2004). Quantized quasar redshifts in a creationist cosmology 109. Technical Journal (present-day Journal of Creation). Retrieved on 2012-1015.