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FEYNMAN_ON_PHILOSOPHY

                                                    July 10, 2016

Leonard Susskind, "The Cosmic Landscape" (2006):
                                                        LEONARD_SUSSKIND 
  "Richard Feynman once remarked, 'Philosphers
  say a great deal about what is absolutely
  necessary for science, and it is always, so
  far as one can see, rather naive, and           Susskind references Feynman's
  probably wrong.'  Feynman was referring to      "Lectures on Physics",
  Popper among others"                            volume I, chapter 2, (1965):

                                                  http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/09/more-feynman-on-philosophers/

I don't doubt Feynman agreed with Susskind on
Karl Popper (and after all, Susskind knew Feynman
personally), but in this case I'm not sure
Susskind is quite right about the context.
Feynman was talking about the fundamentally
statistical character of Quantum Mechanics:

   "...  philosophers have said before that one
   of the fundamental requisites of science is
   that whenever you set up the same
   conditions, the same thing must happen.
   This is simply *not true*, it is *not* a
   fundamental condition of science."





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