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science opportunity thinking
Richard P. Feynman 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.
science measurement momentum
Richard P. Feynman 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 progress theory
Richard P. Feynman Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
science thinking law
Richard P. Feynman The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?
science names bird
Richard P. Feynman You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
science play theoretical-physics
Richard P. Feynman 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 progress trying
Richard P. Feynman We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
science thinking doubt
Richard P. Feynman 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.
self
Peter Roebuck It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass
self vision
Matt Bingham His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient,
self waste precious-things
Anton LaVey To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
selfishness satanism form
Anton LaVey Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.
self years levels
Robbie Coltraine Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.
self forgotten truest
Richard Paul Evans In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
self world wonderful
Richard Holbrooke Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
self sick narcissistic
Richard Hofstadter To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
selfish sacrifice benefits
Richard Dawkins What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.
morale
Harry McDonald I think that you will see the morale lifted,
morality needs question
Cillian Murphy He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.
moral-high-ground iraq borders
Tucker Carlson We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.
morality produce immorality
Tullian Tchividjian Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.
morality study social
Vincent Van Gogh Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
moral duty obligation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
moral guidance authority
Walter Lippmann The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
morally people sit
Matt Birk I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,
morality observance
Joseph Addison There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.