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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
causes fall subject
He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet. O. Singh
causes altars
The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god. William James
causes favour trouble
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes. Vincent Van Gogh
causes lost-everything olympics
Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything. Tonya Harding
causes reggae easy
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted, Ziggy Marley
causes states stable
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. William C. Bryant
causes hopeless shame
Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame. Saddam Hussein
causes fans taiwan
I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from. Yani Tseng
causes eating exercise health heart kinds needs obesity properly risk
Risk of not eating properly causes obesity and heart attacks. It can give you all kinds of health problems. Everyone needs to exercise and eat nutritional food.
razors timer old-timers
We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. Robert Lowell
razors satire should
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Mary Wortley Montagu
razors tools program
C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess. Brian Kernighan
razors march tyson
March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count. Mike Tyson
razors anything-can-happen happens
Anything can happen with a razor. Laura Kightlinger