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science opportunity thinking
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. Richard P. Feynman
science measurement momentum
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
science play theoretical-physics
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
science thinking doubt
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
science tourists philosopher
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
science reflection desire
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
science errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science camels world
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund. Richard Dawkins
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
teeth normal bed
Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being. Ned Vizzini
teeth common poor
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. Martin Amis
teeth steak lost
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
teeth brushes toothpaste
When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste. Julie Garwood
teeth penetrate
To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth. Paul Valery
teeth grows pursue
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers. John Gardner
teeth green hello
The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green. Dave Barry
teeth behinds
Behind every smile there's teeth. Confucius
teeth fairy-tale tales
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. Alice Hoffman
coins currency gods images obviously
The coins are obviously currency used for trade, but they have images of gods on them. Jessica Aiken
coins smooth circulation
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. Louis Menand
coins sides ability
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more. David Attenborough
coins hate rare
some of the coins are so rare that I hate to see them go.
coins pockets flattery
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment. Bill Vaughan
coins idiot song wandering
Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that. Sammy Cahn
coins want
Keep your coins, I want change. Banksy
coins way
I got here the same way the coin did. Cormac McCarthy