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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
knives made shorts
You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife? Richelle Mead
knives evil magic
But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil. Rick Riordan
knives bread
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. Vera Farmiga
knives use staff
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. Robin Hobb
knives forgiving lambs
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. William Blake
knives bores-you people
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. Louise Brooks
knives years skins
I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself? Kajol
knives knowing long
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… Mikhail Bulgakov
knives
A knife is only as good as the one who wields it. Patrick Ness
elephants trying rooms
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
elephants goes-on normalcy
Life goes on with fragile normalcy. Sara Gruen
elephants car bigs
Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. Wyndham Lewis
elephants
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant. Jacques Monod
elephants people laughing
I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today. Rahul Gandhi
elephants advice eating
Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. Paul Dickson
elephants rooms invisible
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. Karen Joy Fowler
elephants masterpiece great-things
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. John Donne
elephants rats
It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat. Arthur Mutambara