[EGreg]

That’s not what Feynman is saying. He was against cargo-cult science based on end-results and appearances only. What he is referring to here is what he goes into at length about the “deep meaning” behind “why” something is happening, rather than just describing “what” is happening.

Here is a full clip: https://themultidisciplinarian.com/2016/07/21/feynman-as-phi...

It’s similar to what David Hume, the great skepticist, observed centuries earlier, that one cannot really explain the endless “why” of physical processes, just the “how” of the apparent physical law determined by correlation.

Today we call it “shut up and calculate.”

[enkid]

He calls it dopey philosophy. That's pretty disparaging of the deeper questions needed to answer how to we know what is real.

[EGreg]

Watch the video. Not quite!