Richard Feynman Quote

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or to describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.

"The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)

Richard P. Feynman - Nobel Lecture: The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics