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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]] [http://www.southerncrossreview.org/32/feynman3.htm] | 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]] [http://www.southerncrossreview.org/32/feynman3.htm] | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Empirical science]] | ||
| + | *[[Experimental science]] | ||
| + | *[[Historical science]] | ||
| + | *[[Operation science]] | ||
| + | *[[Origin science]] | ||
| + | [[category:science]] | ||
| + | [[category:scientific disciplines]] | ||
| + | [[category:Methodology of Science]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Political Pressure on Scientists]] | ||
Revision as of 15:59, October 11, 2012
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]