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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
logic sometimes scientist
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules. Robert M. Pirsig
logic action emotion
Logic won't change an emotion but action will. Zig Ziglar
logic language equal
All propositions are of equal value. Ludwig Wittgenstein
logical move t
This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ). Peter Thonis
logic forgotten claims
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens
logic determined behinds
He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one. Terry Pratchett
logic action logical
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. Lion Feuchtwanger
logic kind misogyny
Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless. Joss Whedon
logic politeness convince
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. Josh Billings
assumption base planning
Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,
assumption guess start
I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night. Scott Skiles
assumption cuts full rate tax
This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.
assumption entire orleans point proceed unable
At this point you have to proceed on the assumption ... that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season, Paul Tagliabue
assumption children ending hope massive number numbers positive small
This is a massive problem, and the numbers are growing, ... We know there will not be a positive ending in some of these cases. We hope the number is as small as possible. Meanwhile, we're working under the assumption that these children are out there.
assumption baked crude fuel jet oil
They've baked in $50 (per barrel) crude oil and $1.48 (per gallon) jet fuel as their going assumption for fuel expense.
assumption beyond century child confines far feeling great home natural personal roosevelt style twentieth typical
For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World. Isaiah Berlin
assumption certainly happens open society
It's the society we live in, that we're so open and trusting. We make the assumption that everything is OK. And then something like this happens and it's a wake-up call. I'm certainly going to think more about where I put my information.
assumption
You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers. Ron Rash