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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
firsts helping truth-is
Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do. Carl Jung
firsts loses
We can only lose what we have first claimed. Richard Paul Evans
firsts needs construction
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. Umberto Eco
firsts murder follow-me
I know death follows me, but I murder him first. Tupac Shakur
firsts temperature needs
But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA. Umberto Guidoni
firsts said first-time
Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker. Sarah Rees Brennan
firsts
First thoughts are not always the best. Vittorio Alfieri
firsts excited worried
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. Sally Ride
firsts albums sweden
And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. Wanda Jackson
facts millions
The sum of a million facts is not the truth. William Manchester
facts dip add
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them. William James
facts enough ifs
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
facts
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
facts attention belief
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
facts baboons
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. Will Cuppy
facts problem no-excuses
The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Sarah Palin
facts mystery married
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. Richard Ford
facts stones grows
The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone