“Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"”

—  Richard Feynman , book What Do You Care What Other People Think?

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?", p. 28-29
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988)
Context: Doubting the great Descartes … was a reaction I learned from my father: Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

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