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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
reality shadow substance
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
reality doors stage
If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show. Russell Hoban
reality years solitude
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. Russell Banks
reality people action
The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities. William S. Burroughs
reality way faces
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
reality men world
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women... Virginia Woolf
reality giving actors
General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene. Viola Spolin
reality people different
People are very surprised when they come to Hong Kong after seeing my films, because my version of it is quite different than Hong Kong in reality. Wong Kar-wai
reality imagination mind
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. Woody Allen
odds tough vegas
It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing. Jim Macaluso
odds perspective people
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers. Charles Bukowski
odds pay-the-price people
Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor Robert Kiyosaki
odds
Society is at odds with itself. Clint Eastwood
odds vegas boring
Statistical high Vegas odds probability is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life. Doug Stanhope
odds age spirit
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time! Anne Rice
odds giving facts
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. Robert Greene
odds government ego
As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion. Richard Linklater
odds people everyday
I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life. Suze Orman