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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 errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
science people ego
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. William S. Burroughs
science people comforting
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. Woody Allen
stones particular
I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing." Sandra Bullock
stones firsts praise
He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast. Walter Winchell
stones killing kill-me
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. Louis MacNeice
stones muddy
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone. Muddy Waters
stones firsts hot
If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone. Lenny Bruce
stones far-away euclid
Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. Edna St. Vincent Millay
stones form reconstruction
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form. Andy Goldsworthy
stones firing
The early firings contained many stones.
stones heat bigs
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
littles courses
Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all. Carl Jung
littles doe draws
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things. Renzo Piano
littles should duty
it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult. Rebecca West
littles consideration rationale
Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration. Russell Brand
littles painting surprise
To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal. Richard Russo
littles path behind-you
Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you. Reba McEntire
littles pedestrians little-time
Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time... Robin Williams
littles welcome reassuring
There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome. Robin Hobb
littles little-things trouble
Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I'm just this little thing and then all of a sudden it comes out. Sarah Michelle Gellar