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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.”

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Feynman opened his 1974 commencement address at Caltech with this warning about the danger of self-deception in scientific work. It sits well on a strength page because the strength in question is intellectual: the discipline of checking your own reasoning.

Source: Caltech 1974 Commencement Address

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