![Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.](/assets/img/quote-photos/science-rests-on-reason-and-experiment-and-can-meet-an-opponent-with-calmness.jpg)
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science opportunity progress
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. Richard P. Feynman
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.
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 progress theory
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
science thinking law
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?
science names bird
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
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 progress trying
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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.
opponents bombs aliens
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor. Neal Stephenson
opponents want negotiation
The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants. Jacob Lew
opponents firsts done
When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done. Manfred von Richthofen
opponents failing should
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. Mahatma Gandhi
opponents looks tough
There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead. Caroline Wozniacki
opponents underestimate forgotten
I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well. Suzanne Collins
opponents saying
He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving, David Taras
opponents worked
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. Justin Trudeau
opponents people
I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true. Helen Suzman
sensitive young banging
When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. Deborah Kerr
sensitive effects
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive. Bette Midler
sensitive strategic taking
This is real imperialist penetration, ... They are taking sensitive and strategic information. Hugo Ch
sensitive divulge source
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. John O. Brennan
sensitive break complexes
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. Masiela Lusha
sensitive partners insensitive
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive. Jackson Browne
sensitive sincere goodness
The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere. J. B. Priestley
sensitive concerned
And I completely am one of the most sensitive in that area as far as the NFL is concerned. Jerry Jones
sensitive understand-me nobody-understands-me
Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive. Iggy Pop