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Feynman :: Rules of Chess
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A three-minute clip of Richard Feynman using the rules of chess as an analogy for how science works, discovering rules by observation and sometimes meeting surprises like castling. It touches on incremental progress versus revolutions.
Cited in discussions of the scientific method and empiricism as Feynman's classic analogy of watching a game to infer its rules.
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