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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
intellectual tragedy values
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him... Richard Hofstadter
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. Robert M. Pirsig
intellectual important information
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money. Walter Wriston
intellectual transportation mundane
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. Jose Ortega y Gasset
intellectual may stuff
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out. Jorge Luis Borges
intellectual paint
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. Joni Mitchell
intellectual wonderful spas
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Kurt Andersen
intellectual alive morality
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. James Anthony Froude
intellectual vacuums behinds
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. Henry A. Kissinger
done inspirational-customer-service
What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better. Robert Crawford
done belief break
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done. Richard Paul Evans
done warm my-time
Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins. Rick James
done bittersweet limbs
Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done. Sappho
done scared knows
I've never really done this. Now I know what scared is. Reba McEntire
done
How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best Tracy Hickman
done stories vogue
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here? Vera Wang
done train
I'm done with F1 unfortunately. I'm too old, the train has passed Valentino Rossi
done
I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well. Roger Ailes