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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
silence accomplished
The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color. William S. Burroughs
silence needs done
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. Virginia Woolf
silence streets
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. William Saroyan
silence middle-of-nowhere attractive
There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive. Ray Winstone
silence absence holy
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God. Tullian Tchividjian
silence special minutes
Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence. Uma Thurman
silence tongue sometimes
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. Robertson Davies
silence loud silence-is
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which. Sarah Dessen
silence balance want
and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.
research sure time took
We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right. Rosemarie Truglio
research overboard projects
I typically go overboard when I research new projects. Will Wright
research kind obsessive
I become kind of obsessive about research. James Franco
research pottery want
I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn. Patrick Rothfuss
research failing plus
I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy. Shinya Yamanaka
research plagiarism source
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research. John McPhee
research-and-development medical reason
Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason. Geoff Mulgan
research fields modern
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. David Horowitz
research copying stealing
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research. Chet Atkins