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The Sole Test of Any Idea

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Inspirational physicist Richard Feynman once said “the sole test of any idea is experiment.” I prefer the formulation “the sole test of any idea open to observation is experiment,” because opening our ideas to observation – rather than relying on just belief, instrumentation, or arguments – is often the hardest challenge in making progress on otherwise seemingly unresolvable problems.

-the Centaur

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