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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
superstitions academy built
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. Robert Green Ingersoll
superstitions layers sensitive
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
superstitions speak loud
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going. Steven Blum
superstitions fourth loses
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
superstitions worship invisible
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. Thomas Hobbes
superstitions needs grows
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. Stephen King
superstitions entitled
We're all entitled to our superstitions. Tea Obreht
superstitions ritual
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
superstitions belief dies
But superstition, like belief, must die... Philip Larkin
ways
There are so many different ways you can do that. Devin Brown
ways work
I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together, Tom Daschle
way march celebration
The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
way treats infection
Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.
wayne frank
I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love. Rob Zombie
way certain critics
Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics. William James
way purpose particular
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
way cyber
The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro, William Gibson
way causes sometimes
Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.