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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
roots leaving
Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots? Sara Gruen
roots drawing
Drawing is the root of everything. Vincent Van Gogh
roots people listening
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. Will Oldham
roots silence action
Silence, and non action are the root of all things. Zhuangzi
roots life-is wonder
After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is. Yo-Yo Ma
roots squares square-roots
The square root of I is I. Vladimir Nabokov
roots long fans
I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots. Wynonna Judd
roots salt modesty
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. Wyndham Lewis
roots evil monsters
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil. William Penn
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
evil deeds stills
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
evil consciousness
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. Samuel Johnson
evil grows concealment
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Virgil
evil mind trying
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
evil imperfection judgment
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. Wayne Dyer
evil selfishness persecution
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. William Blake
evil-love evil paradise
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wallace Stegner
evil use done
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.