Bah!  Do you actually think Dyson's aphorism is in stark juxtaposition to 
Feynman's?  I thought, by including so much of what Feynman said, it would be 
less likely anyone would read it wrong.  But if you think Feynman was saying 
being vague is better than being wrong, you TOTALLY misunderstood what he was 
saying.

I'm reminded of Otto.  Are we seriously trading aphorisms?  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YKbYLb5GVc

On 09/21/2017 11:09 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> in stark juxtaposition, we have Freeman Dyson saying:
> 
>     "it is better to be wrong than vague"
> 
> I think I know what he meant and generally support not getting frozen in 
> inaction or muddying/qualifying a statement to the point of losing meaning.

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