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I learned there that innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world.
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder!
They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.
Einstein appreciated that things might be different from what his theory stated; he was very tolerant of other ideas.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
Words to live by ...
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools—guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus—THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
I feel that human beings should treat human beings like human beings. And unless I’m going to be treated like one, I’m not going to have anything to do with them!
we really ought to look into theories that don’t work, and science that isn’t science.
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.
If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it.
When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.
If you’ve made up your mind to test a theory, or you want to explain some idea, you should always decide to publish it whichever way it comes out. If we only publish results of a certain kind, we can make the argument look good. We must publish both kinds of results.
