Principles of Applied Stupidity: How to Get and Do More by Thinking and Knowing Less

Return to Book Page. Principles of Applied Stupidity by Justin Locke. How often have you seen someone fail to move ahead in life because they were afraid of facing the unknown? How often have you seen someone endlessly seek guidance and expertise, and never actually act? The belief that we must become fully knowledgeable and certified by others BEFORE moving ahead is a great disincentive to success and personal fulfillment. In this new gro How often have you seen someone fail to move ahead in life because they were afraid of facing the unknown? In this new groundbreaking book which, we admit, sounds like a gag Justin Locke author of Real Men Dont Rehearse does the first actual study of the science, and benefits, of not knowing everything and not thinking too much.

This book will show you how to avoid the overly cautious lets-commission-a-study-first thinking that bogs down so many people and projects. The word stupid comes from the Latin stupidus, meaning to be astonished, and you may very well be astonished at the power, freedom and opportunity that will be yours after reading Principles of Applied Stupidity.

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On a dead planet with no life to entertain. Never at rest tortured by energy wasted prodigiously by the sun poured into space.

Principles of Applied Stupidity by Justin Locke

A mite makes the sea roar. Deep in the sea all molecules repeat the patterns of one another till complex new ones are formed. They make others like themselves and a new dance starts. Growing in size and complexity living things masses of atoms DNA, protein dancing a pattern ever more intricate. Out of the cradle onto dry land here it is standing: Stands at the sea, wonders at wondering: I a universe of atoms an atom in the universe.

Now, we scientists are used to this, and we take it for granted that it is perfectly consistent to be unsure, that it is possible to live and not know. Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science.

It was a very deep and strong struggle: I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained. How can all that be going on in that tiny space? So I have often made the hypotheses that ultimately physics will not require a mathematical statement, that in the end the machinery will be revealed, and the laws will turn out to be simple, like the chequer board with all its apparent complexities.

There are a number of possibilities. The first is the limited imagination of physicists: Another possibility is that it is the same damn thing over and over again—that Nature has only one way of doing things, and She repeats her story from time to time.

Richard Feynman

A third possibility is that things look similar because they are aspects of the same thing—some larger picture underneath, from which things can be broken into parts that look different, like fingers on the same hand. Many physicists are working very hard trying to put together a grand picture that unifies everything into one super-duper model.

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But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead. I was scared green. I replied in an equally mean voice, "Get out of my way, or I'll pee right through ya!

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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literary or artistic expression.

Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race. The reason for telling you about him now is that his excellence is so well known, both at Princeton where he worked before he came here, and to a not inconsiderable number of "big shots" on this project, that he has already been offered a position for the post war period, and will most certainly be offered others.

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I feel that he would be a great strength for our department, tending to tie together its teaching, its research and its experimental and theoretical aspects. I may give you two quotations from men with whom he has worked. Bethe has said that he would rather lose any two other men than Feynman from this present job, and E.

Wigner said, " He is a second Dirac. Only this time human.

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Disputed [ edit ] Shut up and calculate! David Mermin , in Physics Today May , p. If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be "Shut up and calculate! Does not appear to be from any of his books or cited in a biography. A Google Books search shows that the oldest book citing "physics is like sex" is Scary Monsters and Bright Ideas by science broadcaster Robyn Williams. Richard Feynman added, 'Physics is like sex: Wikipedia has an article about: Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Retrieved from " https: