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huhtenberg on July 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Feynman on the Challenger disaster (1986) ...

There's an expression that goes "to know is to be able to explain". Einstein had a saying to that effect, as did Feynman and ... Aristotle :)

rimantas on July 20, 2015 [–]

Well, Aristotle likely had it backwards, thinking that explaining can pass for knowledge ;)

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