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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
two emotion fear-of-love
There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two. Carl Jung
two way directors
No two directors make the same film the same way. Rob Cohen
two trying gears
You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for. Rob Brown
two-sides car would-be
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief. Richard Widmark
two splits world
My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole. Richelle Mead
two doe looks
Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So does our mailman back in North Dakota," said Adrian.
two waiting silence
Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm.” There were a few moments of silence. “Sage, I’ve been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?
two years lifetime
You can live a lifetime in two years.
two different two-different-things
Wanting and needing are two different things.
use moral debate
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. Richard Holloway
useless
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. Raymond Chandler
used
I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great. William Saroyan
use
Use your power gently. William Nicholson
use streets
The street has its own use for things. William Gibson
use policy materials
There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on. Richard Rogers
use life-is careless
Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all. Trevor McDonald
use riches values
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. Samuel Johnson
use strategy imagery
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you. Wayne Dyer