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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 progress trying
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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
if-there-is-a-god plans ifs
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. Eddie Izzard
if-there-is-a-god needs facts
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person. Swami Vivekananda
if-there-is-a-god design mind
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God. Stephen Hawking
common-sense may sound
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. William Kingdon Clifford
common-sense prejudice common
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. William Hazlitt
common-sense novelists belief
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. W. Somerset Maugham
common-sense perfect feelings
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense. Luther Burbank
common-sense autism too-much
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. Temple Grandin
common-sense found grain
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew. John Calvin
common-sense imagine mathematics
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. Lord Kelvin
common-sense sticks reason
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks. Fred Thompson
common-sense car alternatives
And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism. Jimmy Carter