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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”: Adventures of a Curious CharacterOf course I would like to have done it at home, and I donБЂ™t doubt that you could meditate and do it if you practice, but I didnБЂ™t practice. Cargo Cult Science [4] During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideasБЂ”which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didnБЂ™t work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science. And it developed very well, so that we are now in the scientific age. It is such a scientific age, in fact, that we have difficulty in understanding how witch doctors could ever have existed, when nothing that they proposed ever really workedБЂ”or very little of it did. But even today I meet lots of people who sooner or later get me into a conversation about UFOs, or astrology, or some form of mysticism, expanded consciousness, new types of awareness, ESP, and so forth. And IБЂ™ve concluded that itБЂ™s not a scientific world. Most people believe so many wonderful things that I decided to investigate why they did ...» |
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