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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 errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
science people ego
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. William S. Burroughs
science people comforting
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. Woody Allen
lasts
Only peace between equals can last. Woodrow Wilson
lasts firsts principles
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. William Blake
lasts life recovery
Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time. Jackie Williams
lasts life rest return sure
I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work.
lasts firsts links
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
lasts looks feels
What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time? Jonathan Tropper
lasts adults september
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. Kenneth H. Cooper
lasts faces problem
I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable. Kelley Armstrong
lasts form forbidden
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. Harvey Cox
poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Jorge Luis Borges
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
poet theory feels
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. John Ciardi
poet lays values
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. Caroline Norton
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser