Quote of the moment: Richard Feynman, “nature cannot be fooled”

Feynman speaking from the grave? You decide:

Richard Feynman, at a hearing of the Rogers Commission, demonstrates with a glass of ice water and a piece of O-ring material, how cold makes the O-rings inflexible; photo credit unknown

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman, in the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, appendix (1986)

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• Richard Feynman and the Space Shuttle Challenger investigation (kottke.org)
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