Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

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

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.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

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.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

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.

Richard P. Feynman

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Henry Cavill

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

David Boyer

Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day. People loved it.

Freda Adler

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Annie Lennox

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Tom Petty

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Tika Sumpter

I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.

Vanessa Paradis

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

Wayne Dyer

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Randy Jackson

You were right where you were supposed to be, singing the right song that could be on the radio right now.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

Juan Williams

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Sean Hannity

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

Shelby Lynne

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Marc Maron

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

Thomas A. Edison

The radio craze will die out in time.

Linda Ellerbee

The new national campfire - radio.