![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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-difficulty-really-is-psychological-and-exists-in-the-perpetual-torment-that-r.jpg)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
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We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. William Whewell
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Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
reflection pope instinct
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. William James
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. Whittaker Chambers
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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. William Banting
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Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. Walter Kirn
reflection theatre theater
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. William Ralph Inge
reflection zealous research
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. Wilhelm Steinitz
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John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me. Keisha Brown
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J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.
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I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow, Gerard Hopkins
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I discussed with Nate our desire for him to remain as the voice of the Eagles. I was disappointed when he respectfully declined. Sam Baker
desire sometimes seems
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. Robert Collier
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It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions. Rebecca West
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If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.