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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
columbus craft reliable sailing system
As you know, this is Columbus Day. And so, like Columbus, we have a reliable system of navigation. We are sailing in a craft in which we have confidence. J. Nichols
columbus spirit
The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day. Chauncey Depew
columbus counts distance few miles talking
We're a few miles out of New Orleans, about the distance from Lima to Columbus Grove. It's not far, but every mile counts when you're talking about flooding.
columbus goal needed paul puck stepped
Columbus scored a goal and we needed something to happen. Paul got the puck right back and scored. He stepped up and got it done. Barry Trotz
columbus company
Without question, this company should do away with Columbus Circle. Carl Icahn
columbus coming due felt game league maybe respect scholars-and-scholarship
With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent. Chris Albright
columbus days ear except infection inner morning plane
We were told this morning that Columbus has reassigned him. He would have been on a plane right now except he has an inner ear infection and it will take two days before he can fly.
usual impatient newspapers
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. Nellie Bly
usual six alarms
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. Martin Amis
usual hours foolish
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? E. T. A. Hoffmann
usual steps sociopath
I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath. George Carlin
usual horror seats
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy) J. D. Salinger
usual euthanasia mankind
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist. Friedrich Nietzsche