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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
heaven strange eternity
Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity. Anton LaVey
heaven earth hell
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. Wallace Stevens
heaven doubt earth
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. William Cowper
heaven earth territory
Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian. Roseanne Barr
heaven calling earth
And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee? Saint Augustine
heaven earth doe
Heaven does without doing through its purity, Earth does without doing through its calmness. Zhuangzi
heaven fool coats
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither. William Gurnall
heaven fool paradise
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable. William Ralph Inge
heaven ghost hell
There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell. William Booth
degrees easily few hot literally wine
It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked. Ted Brennan
degrees cynicism optimist
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. Sarah McLachlan
degrees ice
It was 26 degrees at 1 o'clock. There was ice everywhere.
degrees freezing pumped
It was 18 degrees out there, freezing cold, but I was so pumped up.
degrees heel pole
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! Joseph Banks
degrees helped inside seeing slick weather
It made the weather a little more realistic, because it's going to be about 73 or 72 degrees inside the dome, ... We didn't have any lightning, so I thought it helped us concentrate even more, seeing as it was slick and noisy. Jon Gruden
degrees funny less
It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation. Kevin Connolly
degrees shy found
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. Caroline Knapp
degrees hubris
Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. Moby