“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

— Richard Feynman

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address "What is Science?", presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science Teachers Association, in New York City (1966), published in The Physics Teacher, volume 7, issue 6 (1969), p. 313-320

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Feynman, Richard. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Richard Feynman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

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