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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
sight perspective shifting
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. William James
sight firsts tire
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. Samuel Johnson
sight use oneself
To examine oneself makes good use of sight. Zhuangzi
sight earthquakes secret
It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes. Voltaire
sight goal sides
Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something. Rick Riordan
sight trying want
If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you. Steve Vai
sight expression imagination
Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before. William Hazlitt
sight tasks helping
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of. Zygmunt Bauman
sight
The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else. Zig Ziglar
historical knowledge luxury
I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board. Ed Harris
historical democracy radio
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria. William J. Clinton
historical reason whole-life
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. Will Eisner
historical triumph christ
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ. Will Durant
historical liberty democracy
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin
historical krishna figures
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. Rudolf Otto
historical mask figures
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. Wes Craven
historical soldier unthinkable
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable Wilfred Owen
historical christ
Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life. Walter Kaufmann