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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
talking
I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all. William Farmer
talking
I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.
talking
It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual. Stephen Smith
talking wished worked
He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.
talking
I'd been talking about it for a long time.
talking terrible
I'm just terrible. At talking. With words. Richard Ayoade
talking people fracking
Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part. Russell Brand
talking people ghost
I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. Umberto Eco
talking waiting said
What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this." "Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that. Rick Riordan
time
I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket. Dwyane Wade
time vacation year
I take my vacation this time of year every year.
time
Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better. Graham Elliot
time tv
It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars. Mona Singh
time
It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here, John Shimkus
time
It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them. Jack Smith
time women
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does. Lorrie Moore
time
What may be done at any time will be done at no time
time
There is going to be a time when they come my way. Lorena Ochoa