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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 errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately
science people ego
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work. William S. Burroughs
science people comforting
Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. Woody Allen
ideas influence outcome time wants
He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it. Joe Monahan
ideas ton
There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.
ideas whatever
We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.
ideas words
ideas and words that do not make any sense. Isadora Duncan
ideas mind riches
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. Robert Collier
ideas rocks perspective
Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. Rob Reiner
ideas walks
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.
ideas musical ratios
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. Rob Sheffield
ideas president novelists
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. Richard Paul Evans
rooms visitors proust
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame. Tyler Cowen
rooms meetings only-time
The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting. Nancy Pelosi
rooms months six
It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room! Jackson Rathbone
rooms band happens
What happens in the band room stays in the band room. John Green
rooms film made
The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like. Jude Law
rooms jeeves watches
One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. P. G. Wodehouse
rooms overcoming tough
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. Nate Silver
rooms downtime computer
During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer. Mark Hoppus
rooms film wells
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. Patrice Leconte