Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! It's Friday and time for more Professor Feynman! Many thanks to those who posted some comments and quotes about Feynman in the comments in various communities. Thanks @SunJewel @Jimbolaya @Fred_Bourque @Helmet_Fire @LouieC for sending me down the YouTube search for more of his clips and pondering buying an audio books, especially "Surely you must be Joking, Mr. Feynman." Thanks Uncle @Fred_Bourque

On to the quotes!

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

I suspect Professor, or Mr. Feynman would be appalled at the state of conversations and assumptions about science in the current chapter of lunacy happing in the West. Don't question the science! We all knew it meant don't question the Narrative. It has probably has been that way ever since there has been people in power and people with questions about the power or it use.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Know anyone who does that without at the same time being either cynical about life or disinterested in life? Most people who wrestle with their ignorance or "wrongness" don't tend to keep on the quest of curiosity and learning. Many if not most sour when they only see failure as not learning or progressing. Only one aspect of failure is being wrong, there is so much more to failure than just being wrong, in error or now recognized ignorance. I guess that is where acquiring the mind of a child as far as learning goes, not our emotional state (we have enough infants there) keeps us curious even when we fail because the discovery matters more than the perception of wrong, which really is only a confession of ignorance or mistake. Education, not learning, makes us feel more the pain of failure because we are graded by others in our memorization and perhaps understanding, but really more the ability to memorize and regurgitate. If you don't know something, you have not failed as much as needing more time or effort. If the subject is truly beyond your grasp then perhaps better discernment is needed, but if you are passionate about it, I suspect many will find a way.

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

He should see the debt now. 🤪🙊 More tomorrow. Happy Friday my friends!

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