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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 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.
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
degrees easily few hot literally wine
It got so hot those few weeks, I know it easily got to 120 degrees in there. The wine was literally cooked. Ted Brennan
degrees cynicism optimist
I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism. Sarah McLachlan
degrees ice
It was 26 degrees at 1 o'clock. There was ice everywhere.
degrees freezing pumped
It was 18 degrees out there, freezing cold, but I was so pumped up.
degrees heel pole
O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second! Joseph Banks
degrees helped inside seeing slick weather
It made the weather a little more realistic, because it's going to be about 73 or 72 degrees inside the dome, ... We didn't have any lightning, so I thought it helped us concentrate even more, seeing as it was slick and noisy. Jon Gruden
degrees funny less
It's funny because Hollywood is such a small place that everyone really is less than 6 degrees of separation. Kevin Connolly
degrees shy found
I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. Caroline Knapp
degrees hubris
Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. Moby
problem tension
Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.
problem quantify
I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.
problems whatsoever
He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.
problem
Well, you have one problem with your rant. We didn't do it.
problem reasons respond strategic sustained thinking
He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy. Mary Matalin
problem wish
I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well. David Tom
problem
I don't get the problem here at all. We're not making a profit.
problem throw
He'll probably throw it at me first, ... But I don't have a problem with that. I kind of like it.
problem running
He never had a problem doing his running. He usually set the pace.