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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
simple order wish
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
simple difficult science-and-religion
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
simple needs individual
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.
simple chinese handcuffs
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. Rick Riordan
simple mind relax
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. William Shenstone
simple men simplicity
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. William Morris
simple compassion justice
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. William J. Clinton
simple artist media
Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever. William F. Buckley, Jr.
simple needs loud
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud. Rebecca Stead
melancholy universe
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. Emile M. Cioran
melancholy deaf realism
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza
melancholy diabetes
Diabetes is caused by melancholy. Thomas Willis
melancholy
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy. Soren Kierkegaard
melancholy tendencies feels
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. Michael Haneke
melancholy involved
I'm so involved in melancholy. Isaac Mizrahi