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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 errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
science people ego
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. William S. Burroughs
science people comforting
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. Woody Allen
library fiction born
I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks. Luanne Rice
library this-life closest
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. Ashleigh Brilliant
library needs world
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. Peter Singer
library research renaissance
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. Peter Lewis Allen
library identity branches
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. Paula Spencer
library age world
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! Linda Sue Park
library gold realms
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. Peter Porter
library adults values
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. Pete Hamill
library age sage
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. Laura Bush