I believe that Richard Feynman defined science as "What we know, how
we know what we know, and how we apply it--that's technology."

This is a misquote, I'm sure, but the substance is there.

Would you please correct the quote and provide a reference to it?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 18 Jun 2003 17:36 PDT

I'm a huge Feynman fan, so I spent a couple of hours on this.
Unfortunately, I've found no quote that resembles the one you want.

It might be helpful if you could tell us where (and approximately
when) you encountered the quote.

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Clarification of Question by alwayscurious-ga on 18 Jun 2003 19:08 PDT

The only book that I recall having read by or about Feynman was
"Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" I may have encountered the quote
in another book, of course, or by prowling around the web.

My only other thought...and I hate to say this...is that perhaps I
only -believe- that Feynman said it. Perhaps it was someone else.

I appreciate your patience and efforts in tracking down this quote.

After searching for a while I've come up with nothing like the quote
you're asking for. However, I did find a Richard Feynman quote on
"What Science Is".

"...And that is what science is: the result of the discovery that it
is worthwhile rechecking by new direct experience, and not necessarily
trusting the [human] race['s] experience from the past. I see it that
way. That is my best definition."

He said this at the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Science
Teachers Association in 1966 in New York City. You can find this
information (and the full quote, and much more information and quotes)
at

Feynman Online -- The Official Feynman Website
http://www.scs-intl.com/online/


Best regards,
elmarto

The closest I can come up with is:

"Science is not about what we know; it's about what we don't know."

http://web.ccr.jussieu.fr/curie.100/fulltext/herschbach.htm