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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
ruins print off-season
I read a lot of Socrates in the off-season. Don't print that, or it'll ruin my rep. Travis Hafner
ruins bourgeoisie commodity
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. Walter Benjamin
ruins easy knows
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. William Makepeace Thackeray
ruins mood lending
A money-lender--he serves you in the present tense; he lends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the conjunctive; and ruins you in the future. Joseph Addison
ruins looks moonlight
Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight. Phyllis Diller
ruins stuff protect
I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin. Joss Whedon
ruins helping sometimes
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love. Chang-Rae Lee
ruins empires expeditions
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. Thomas de Quincey
ruins tugging thirteen
Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole. George Washington
shame poseidon said
Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish. Rick Riordan
shame hasty conscience
Nature's hasty conscience. Maria Edgeworth
shame crime
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. Pierre Corneille
shame accepted participation
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation. Seth
shameless carelessness
... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself. M. F. K. Fisher
shame speak
It's a shame that that's how it has to end. Obviously, something was really bugging him because you just don't speak like that out of emotion. Josh Beckett
shame
O shame, where is thy blush? William Shakespeare
shame
It would be a shame if he didn't come back, but I think he will. Tom Moody
shame said wanted
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame. Rebecca Loos