Science is Patient Observation

I think it is very important--at least it was to me--that if you are going to teach people to make observations, you should show that something wonderful can come from them. I learned then what science was about. It was patience. If you looked, and you watched, and you paid attention, you got a great reward from it (although possible not every time). As a result, when I became a more mature man, I would painstakingly, hour after hour, for years, work on problems--sometimes many years, sometimes shorter times--many of them failing, lots of stuff going into the wastebasket; but every once in a while there was the gold of a new understanding that I had learned to expect when I was a kid, the result of observation. For I did not learn that observation was not worthwhile.

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Wonderful things can come from watching the world patiently.

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What Is Science?

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book Chapter: Feynman, Richard (1969), What Is Science?, The Physics Teacher, Vol 9, pp 313-320, American Association of Physics Teachers, Retrieved on 2010-11-13

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24 MAY 2011

Science is Patient

Science is Patient Observation > Emphasis > How To Enjoy Science
Patient observation is a crucial component for being a good scientist.

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01 JAN 2010

Scientific Virtues

Memes that define the virtues of science and behaviors that we should emulate.

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