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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
vision input driving
There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources. Reid Hoffman
vision unity may
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest. Robert Nozick
vision lines want
If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines. Will Smith
vision way figures
You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.
vision written
It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down. Virginia Woolf
vision laying-down lighthouse
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
vision
I have had my vision.
vision
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it. Samuel Goldwyn
vision gone life-experience
I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision. Wayne Dyer
facts millions
The sum of a million facts is not the truth. William Manchester
facts argument cases
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. Woodrow Wilson
facts lapses judgment
I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. William J. Clinton
facts dip add
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them. William James
facts enough ifs
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
facts
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
facts attention belief
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
facts baboons
Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. Will Cuppy
facts problem no-excuses
The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Sarah Palin