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It was discussed as a powerful essay available online, where Feynman expressed concern that scientific advancements had outpaced humanity's wisdom and morality. Feynman advocated for a philosophy of embracing ignorance, admitting one's uncertainties, and leaving room for future generations to discover more.
If you go back to my great heroes, actually Richard Feynman, who's one of the great physicists who won a Nobel Prize and Oppenheimer, actually, I've got more and more interested in Oppenheimer, fascin...
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Episode: Professor Brian Cox
It was discussed as a powerful essay available online, where Feynman expressed concern that scientific advancements had outpaced humanity's wisdom and morality. Feynman advocated for a philosophy of embracing ignorance, admitting one's uncertainties, and leaving room for future generations to discover more.
If you go back to my great heroes, actually Richard Feynman, who's one of the great physicists who won a Nobel Prize and Oppenheimer, actually, I've got more and more interested in Oppenheimer, fascinating character, ran the scientific bit of the Manhattan project.
So he was responsible for the bomb. In the fifties, they both reflected, there's a wonderful essay by Feynman called The Value of Science, which is on the web. You can just look it up.
If you type Feynman, The Value of Science, you'll get it.
And ultimately he's worried that the knowledge that we have acquired, science has given us the knowledge our civilization has exceeds our wisdom.
So we have too much power for our morality and our wisdom and our intellect can't deal with the power that we have.