“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.” – R. Feynman
Sometimes you get too wrapped up in an experiment, losing objectivity. You never even notice that you have changed your methods, parameters and objective.
Which, could be a good thing. An old expression stated that, “The most important discoveries were not followed by yelling “Eureka!” They were noted by someone saying, That’s funny…””
But do not lie to yourself! No matter how cool it is, no one wants a sex lube that you can form into a ball and bounce over your house!
And it did. Two stories…
Quantum Cogitation 