Richard FeynmanScience is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
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Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist and philosopher who helped pioneer the theory of evolution, once said that science is simply a way of trying not to fool yourself. In other words, you have to be very sure that what you are doing is really the right thing before you start doing it.
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