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science opportunity thinking
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.
science measurement momentum
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.
science progress theory
Richard P. Feynman Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
science thinking law
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?
science names bird
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.
science play theoretical-physics
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.
science progress trying
Richard P. Feynman We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
science thinking doubt
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.
names evil nations
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
names guy your-boyfriend
Richelle Mead Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.
names jet
Richelle Mead My name's Jet Steele.
names people serious
Richelle Mead The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.
names interesting rose
Umberto Eco The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
names furniture percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
Rick Riordan This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
names kind stage
Rick James I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.
names use want
Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
names effort doctrine
Virchand Gandhi All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.
empty flying good hard home prove sacrifice smoke team work
Sarah Parsons I think we are going to come out flying and smoke them and prove to everyone how good our team actually is. We didn't sacrifice this much and work so hard to come home empty handed.
empty food normally people shops
Walter Nalangu There are one or two shops open. The marketplace is empty it is normally packed with hundreds of people. The only food people have is what they have at home.
empty-mind people brain
Russell Baker Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.
empty-vessels history use
Learned Hand The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
empty-mind envy mind
Pindar Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
empty-mind house world
Frank McCourt Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
empty-vessels rotten sound
John Lydon You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
empty five good three
Dick Jauron Absolutely. In our league, when you go to a game, you see five receivers on the field, a lot of four, three receivers. You see empty (backfield) in every situation. So if you don't have at least three really good (corners), it'll be long Sundays.
empty flying happen
Paul Nisbet They were flying a lot of empty planes. They don't want that to happen again.