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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
interesting people roles
One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles. Woody Allen
interesting failing something-new
You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting. William Shatner
interesting choices variation
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland. Robin Wright
interesting provoking
To be interesting, one has to provoke. Salvador Dali
interesting fiction stranger
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. William Randolph Hearst
interesting way television
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling. William Boyd
interesting stories crafts
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. William Kennedy
interesting culture language
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. Sandra Cisneros
interesting painting very-interesting
Painting is very interesting. Sam Waterston
imperfection littles complaining
It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things. Saint Francis de Sales
imperfection democracy criticism
There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. Kevin Rudd
imperfection problem natural
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing. Tara Brach
imperfection together reminders
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. Brene Brown
imperfection endurance hell
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something. Drew Barrymore
imperfection
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. Duke of Wellington
imperfection grace sticks
Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either. Donald Miller
imperfection enemy vices
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Ambrose Bierce
imperfection wicked drs
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.