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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
soul pay six
Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes. Richelle Mead
soul helpful ancient
I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer. William S. Burroughs
soul depth tumult
The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. William Wordsworth
soul style might
What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul. Richard Flanagan
soul missionary christ
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ. Vance Havner
soul black style
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. Robin Gibb
soul lord should
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop. Samuel Rutherford
soul together body
Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together. Vincent Van Gogh
soul machines portraits
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
temples motive mansions
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there. Robert M. Pirsig
temples oracles common
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. Rufus Choate
temples hinduism appeals
Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans. Mahatma Gandhi
temples body jew
Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not. April Winchell
temples christian-women sewers
Woman is a temple built over a sewer. Tertullian
temples
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. Charles Eastman
temples gone found
You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there. C. S. Lewis
temples built hard
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. George Herbert
temples
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. Zubin Mehta