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science opportunity progress
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. Richard P. Feynman
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.
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 progress theory
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
science thinking law
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
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
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
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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.
people
Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them. Kay Redfield Jamison
people social sports student
I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with. Andrew Shue
people road
I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring. H. Hart
people ryan telling
Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere. Don Miller
people seeing touches watching
Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,
people
I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek. MC Hammer
people worked
I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it. Stephen Graham
people
He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.
people work
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me. Graham Elliot
understanding viewers
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information. Teller
understanding
The task of understanding the past is neverending. Susanna Moore
understanding mind female
The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.
understanding three conviction
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. Richard Whately
understanding storm sound
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms. Richard Baxter
understanding magic enemy
My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set. Rick Riordan
understanding progress steps
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will? William Matthews
understanding soil fruit
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship. Woodrow Wilson
understanding hell nazi
How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works. Woody Allen