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

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

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.

Richard P. Feynman

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.

Richard P. Feynman

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Dawkins

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 Whately

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Harry McDonald

I think that you will see the morale lifted,

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Harvey Mackay

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Mahatma Gandhi

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

DeAndre Rice

Here, he's more humble. He's taking his time with us and learning from the mistakes he made. And he's helping us to be together and play as a team.

Bob Cole

He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him out. He's played more than he thought he was going to play.

Schoolboy Q

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Paul Wolfowitz

Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.

Lynn Upson

Helping other communities is a really big thing for me right now because it's a horrible thing to feel so helpless.

Reid Hoffman

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

William S. Burroughs

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

Samuel Smiles

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.