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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
eyebrows looks complicated
Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own. Sarah Rees Brennan
eyebrows television american-education
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. Paul Erdos
eyebrows surprise mock
Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise. Patrick Ness
eyebrows trying sides
Sit down, Will. There’s a good fellow,” he said. “Yes, sir,” replied Will, and Halt’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. “He’s never called me sir,” he said. “Probably trying to get on my good side,” Crowley replied. Halt nodded savagely. “Probably. John Flanagan
eyebrows hard raise understand
They make you raise your eyebrows when you understand how hard they are to get to. Carl Crawford
eyebrows lips curls
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit. Denise Richards
eyebrows fact reports three
The fact that we had three reports that were the same made everyone's eyebrows go up. Andrew Laird
eyebrows mustache handsome
I put a mustache and some eyebrows on, and I looked just like Nicolas Cage. ... We have the same amazingly handsome good looks. Marilyn Manson
eyebrows faces envious
I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows. Chris Pine
flames flare
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. Richard Paul Evans
flames years fire
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ? Richard Baxter
flames age grass
The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them. Rebecca West
flames joy sorrow
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her Sara Teasdale
flames torches brighter
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. Walter Scott
flames shine-bright heaven
Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames. Neal Shusterman
flames two silence
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
flames may internet
The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom. Jonathan Zittrain
flames light downtime
I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off. Kellan Lutz