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.

Zakk Wylde

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Kathy Reichs

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

John Adams

Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.

Emo Philips

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

Noah Wyle

Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Kevin Nealon

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Mitch Hedberg

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Ray Stallone

Well, you have one problem with your rant. We didn't do it.

Mary Matalin

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

David Tom

I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well.

Keith Winkowski

I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.

Shane Matthews

He'll probably throw it at me first, ... But I don't have a problem with that. I kind of like it.

Ron McBride

He never had a problem doing his running. He usually set the pace.