Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

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.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

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?

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.

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.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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.

John Burness

Joe wanted to reach out to students who felt they'd like support and provide answers for anything they felt they needed to know.

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Yates

It answers the question; we feel the engine program is pretty solid, ... There is a long list of things that make up a good race team, and when you can eliminate one of those variables, it's nice.

Peter Young

We support the general concept of a World Cup but like everything else with Twenty20, there are more questions than answers and we'd like a bit more time to look at everything.

Tom Clark

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.

Alex Jones

The answer to 1984 is 1776.

Robin Cook

I welcome any move which helps bring Milosevic to justice, ... It is vital that Milosevic answers these charges.

John Beilein

I watch tape of them and I don't have answers. We have to make 10 or 11 3s and hope they have an off night. There are just not a lot of answers for this team.

Richelle Mead

Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri

Trinny Woodall

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

Sarah Silverman

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Tori Amos

Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know.

Venus Williams

Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up quickly. And it's easy to become a statistic. And that's something I've always tried to avoid, and I've always said, hey - not that it won't be me, that, hey, it could be me.

William Strunk, Jr.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

Vikram Chatwal

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

Sandra Cisneros

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

William Devane

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.