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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
issues meat politics record
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics. Ted Cruz
issues nations negotiate rail treaty
There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government. Judith Sayers
issues living movement past
I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.
issues technical
I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,
issues last result routine three weeks
He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.
issues knows less members minority ours point represent strong terms
I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate. Bill Graham
issues race cases
Race is not, and will not be an issue in this case. Robert Shapiro
issues erosion liberty
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business. Sara Sheridan
issues directors miles
Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through these issues/50/images I am connected and something is illuminated.And I know then that I am not alone. Werner Herzog
logic sometimes scientist
The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules. Robert M. Pirsig
logic action emotion
Logic won't change an emotion but action will. Zig Ziglar
logic language equal
All propositions are of equal value. Ludwig Wittgenstein
logical move t
This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).
logic forgotten claims
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens
logic determined behinds
He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one. Terry Pratchett
logic action logical
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. Lion Feuchtwanger
logic kind misogyny
Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless. Joss Whedon
logic politeness convince
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. Josh Billings