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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
imagination knowledge
Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
imagination
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series. Kate Winslet
imagination needs terrible
What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.
imagination profound suffering
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. Rob Bell
imagination religion poetic
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
imagination acting stills
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that Robin Wright
imagination philosopher surprise
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. Robert Nozick
imagination rooms
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination. Robert Rauschenberg
imagination world vapid
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Wallace Stevens
creative fact inviting name people pick short soon stature wrestle
Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation. Gary Arnold
creative difficult greatest impulse love song suffering work
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work. Patti Smith
creative prolific students ways
We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.
creative trying demand
Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed. Tyler Cowen
creative want doe
Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change. Will Ferrell
creative grows ifs
If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted. Sarah Ban Breathnach
creative individual mainstream
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream. Richard Florida
creative acting benefits
Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way. Robert De Niro
creative radio appreciative
That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials. Richard Roeper