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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
greek useless language
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. Virginia Woolf
greek luck tragedy
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. Werner Herzog
greek mouths esoteric
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut... William Ralph Inge
greeks
The Greeks play very well on the counter, Claude Makelele
greek christianity
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts. Oliver Stone
greek playwright
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.
greek age
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
greek originated time
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. Tom Stoppard
greek quality world
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities. Neville Cardus
truth-is christ relation
No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre A. Hodge
truth-is propaganda precious-things
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it. Vladimir Lenin
truth-is private-property property
Truth is not private property. Saint Augustine
truth-is troublesome
Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly Patrick Rothfuss
truth-is absolute-truth constant
Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original. Josh McDowell
truth-is whole-life whole
The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life Lou Ferrigno
truth-is sells
Truth is the easiest thing to sell. Daymond John
truth-is
Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped. Edward Snowden
truth-is interruptions regard
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. C. S. Lewis