Oct 3, 2026
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman | Quote Explained
A deep analysis of the line Richard Feynman left in his 1974 Caltech commencement address, “Cargo Cult Science” — the exact wording, the occasion of June 14, 1974, the Millikan oil-drop and rat-corridor stories behind it, and why the physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize treated self-deception as the central problem of knowledge long before the age of confident machines.
