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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
idols makers
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. Walter Lippmann
idols tv-shows proud
I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition. Kelly Clarkson
idols liking-someone someday
Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that. James Lafferty
idols
It's great to get to work with your idols. Joel Kinnaman
idols bryan carrie
American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood. Luke Bryan
idols fame holy
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
idols hands should
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands. Gustave Flaubert
idols sticks degrees
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
idols stones rolling
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. Brian Wilson
morale
I think that you will see the morale lifted, Harry McDonald
morality needs question
He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him. Cillian Murphy
moral-high-ground iraq borders
We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair. Tucker Carlson
morality study social
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. Vincent Van Gogh
morally people sit
I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do, Matt Birk
moral consistent persistent
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it. Harvey Mackay
moral economics disregard
That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values. Mahatma Gandhi
moral-beliefs facts would-be
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts. Friedrich August von Hayek
moral tradition reason
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.