Straitjacket Quotes (2 quotes)
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.
In Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992), 324.
Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by �knowing� the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science�or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
