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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. Richard P. Feynman
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. Richard P. Feynman
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. Richard P. Feynman
science tourists philosopher
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. Richard P. Feynman
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. Richard P. Feynman
science errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. Richard P. Feynman
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
hands onto risk simply
Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth, Glenn Morris
hands jail
hands down, even if in jail or in the grave. Jeff Koinange
hands intimidate panic puck rattle seen sweetest
He's got the sweetest hands I think I've seen on a guy. He doesn't panic with the puck at all. He doesn't let too much intimidate him or rattle him out there, and that's a big thing. Rob Niedermayer
hands job takes whatever
Whatever it takes to get the job done. We need all hands on deck. James Woods
hands power purpose shift
The purpose of this is to shift power from one set of hands to another. Paul Hefner
hands knows
I think we need to put it in the hands of someone who knows real estate. Stephen Johnson
hands mind process reflect season time whenever
I think that thought process will go through my mind whenever the season is over with, (then) I'll get to that. I'll have a lot of time on my hands without basketball, so I'll be able to reflect on that. Matt Kiefer
hands happened teacher
I was very upset. No teacher has a right to put her hands on a child. This is not a one-time incident. This has happened before. Tammy Johnson
hands help inside
I was able to get my hands inside and I probably used a little nudge from J.B. (Bettis) in the back to help me out a little bit. Heath Miller
giving feelings needs
One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look. Ryan Kwanten
giving advice world
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess. Russell Baker
giving-up forever would-be
Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever. Tyler Hilton
giving-up dont-give-up people
If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today. Tyler Oakley
giving stay-focused lanes
God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright. Tyler Perry
giving trying quality
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. Toyo Ito
giving serenity grace
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed. Reinhold Niebuhr
giving chance bones
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass. William S. Burroughs
giving waiting hungry
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can. William S. Burroughs