He is right, of course, and so id Mr. Feynman, but the real question here is more like; Why does our current society believe in authoritarian sciences and why aren’t we questioning more about everything. It is easier, I get that, so, sometimes we should really choose a harder path.
When I was 16, I was riding a ‘trail’ motorcycle. It is a hybrid between motocross and a regular road motorcycle. In other words, it is a motocross with all the lights to go on regular roads.
I was riding on a trail road one day and I decided to switch to this other one I was seeing across a patch of dense bush. Now, I knew I could easily go on the current path and come back to it using a detour of about 5 minutes but I got intrigued by the idea of cutting through right here across this path of a young forest with a high density of small trees.
These trees were about one to two inches of diameter and were spaced at about eight to nine inches apart. Some were bending under the weight of my machine but most were not bending. I had to steer my front wheel just to pass between two trees.
Needless to say, it took me a long time to cross over. I made it through in about three hours for about a hundred and fifty feet. That was an experiment for me. It might not be very ‘scientific’ but I learned a lot about my machine and myself by crossing this dense patch of bush. Among other things, I ‘learned’ that sometimes it is more enjoyable to choose the hard path. It is just a different kind of joy.
>> “It may even be that these institutions that pretend to be about science are unscientific. The fundamental defining characteristic of science, the one that Feynman explicitly identifies, is that we do not decide whether something is true or false based on authority but rather based on experience.”
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