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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
marijuana mushrooms addiction
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence. William S. Burroughs
marijuana medical medical-marijuana
I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down. Sanjay Gupta
marijuana doctors herbs
Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver. Roseanne Barr
marijuana america drug
Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today. Ronald Reagan
marijuana thinking smoking
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind. Ziggy Marley
marijuana law prohibition
Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. Morgan Freeman
marijuana use medical
We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use. Jacob Zuma
marijuana thinking alcohol
Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don't think there's a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It's much less dangerous than alcohol, for example. Noam Chomsky
marijuana punishment self
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? P. J. O'Rourke
smoking support total
I do not support a total smoking ban. Mike Marsden
smoking draught pipe
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. Frederick Marryat
smoking age might
The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.. James M. Barrie
smoking slavery conspiracy
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery. John Harvey Kellogg
smoking three fifty
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. Arthur Conan Doyle
smoking global-warming cigarette
Cigarette smoking is a significant contributor to global warming! Al Gore
smoking challenges quitting
You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge. Jami Attenberg
smoking safe alternatives
Cigars are no safe alternative act. Ed Markey
smoking camels three
I smoke so much. Three packs a day... I went to the bathroom, a camel came out of my ass. Dave Attell