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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
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry merit praise
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti
poet company
Oh, what company good poets are!
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Jorge Luis Borges
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry obscurity praise
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
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The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts. Brad Woodhouse
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It has been established that he took direct part in the funding of several such organizations. Embassy payment documents signed by Doe on money transfers to NGO accounts at our disposal prove this.
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I think we are all aware that some accounts have a deficient balance.
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Robert, my son and I do sales. Cathy is in charge of ordering supplies, accounts payable and accounts receivable, payroll, and keeping track of workers compensation certificates on all subcontractors. Barb schedules all the different stages of the job, applies for permits, and calls in all inspections. We all work pretty well together.
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If you notice anything questionable, such as accounts you don't recognize, or payment disputes, deal with those issues before applying for a home equity loan. It can also be helpful to have your credit score which will tell you specifically the factors in your credit history that could be considered risky by lenders.
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If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history. Gene Sperling
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If you've given them your credit-card number and/or bank-account number, you should watch those accounts very carefully.
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In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school. Kenny Marchant
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In Ontario, job losses in manufacturing have accelerated in recent months alongside announced layoffs in the key auto sector. However, Ontario's economy is well diversified and strength in the service sector, which accounts for more than 70 percent of overall employment and economic activity, should support vehicle sales of about 590,000 units in 2006 - in line with the average of the past two years.