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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 progress trying
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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
gossip pornography knows
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography. Woody Allen
gossip minutes celebrity-life
I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute! William Shatner
gossip people fiction
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them. Vikram Seth
gossip firsts pages
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19. Paul Newman
gossip taverns bumps
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session. Marshall McLuhan
gossip rumor
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious. Margot Asquith
gossip rumor inquiry
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. Learned Hand
gossip care wells
Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true. Kathy Griffin
gossip feelings faults
by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ... Margaret Deland
scientist authority should
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. John Charles Polanyi
scientist aim colleagues
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. Leo Szilard
scientists
I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world. Alan Alda
scientist
I was going to be a scientist. Ben Okri
scientist eternity peeping
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. Arthur Koestler
scientists
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. Thomas R. Cech
scientist physicist
Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. Tim Berners-Lee
scientist shock
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. Harrison Ford
scientists speaking
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.