Experience
Index Entry
Experience:
"Many years ago I developed a system of question asking in which I ruled that I must always answer the questions from experience. My answers must not be based on hearsays, beliefs, axioms, or seeming self-evidence.
"It has been part of my experience that there are others who, while experiencing what I was experiencing, were able to describe what we mutually were experiencing equally well, or better, than I could. Therefore my experience taught me that I could trust the reporting of some others as reliable data to be included in my 'answering' resources. For instance, I could include the experimentally derived data of scientists."
Citations
- NASA Speech, p. 31. Jun'66
