The first principle of experimentation is that you must not fool yourself,” said the eminent scientist, Richard Feynman. “And you are the easiest person to fool.”
Admittedly, his Nobel Prize for Physics would be no help if you are thrown the second new ball at The Gabba with Australia 327-4.
However, everyone can learn from Feynman’s combination of academic rigour, everyday pragmatism and ability to speak truth to power.
Something he did in devastating fashion to NASA after the midair explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
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