On the 38th anniversary of the death of Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), Nobel laureate in Physics in 1965, this lecture presents and annotates his famous talk What Is Science?, given in 1966 to the US National Science Teachers Association.
Dr. Cortés Torres's comments
- Observing is not enough. On Francis Bacon, he recalls William Harvey's criticism: Bacon spoke of making observations but left out the judgment of what to observe and what to pay attention to.
- Keeping experience. He links Feynman to Korzybski's "time-binding": the human ability to preserve records for later generations.
- Experts get it wrong too. He recalls Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel laureate in Economics, for his work on human judgment under uncertainty.
For those who treat patients, the reading invites us to keep asking where what we take for granted comes from.