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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
too-much littles manners
Better too much form than too little.
too-much knows
Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge! William Shatner
too-much likeable humans
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them. Robert Wilson Lynd
too-much trouble
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. William Howard Taft
too-much too-much-information information
Too much information is rather deadening. Willa Cather
too-much pressure force
I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure. Wayne McGregor
too-much brave-new-world-happiness brave-new-world-freedom
What is too much? There is no such thing! Roberto Cavalli
too-much needs drink
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben
too-much
I talk too much. I eat too much. Willard Scott
possibility existence new-possibilities
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. Milan Kundera
possibility circumstances can-do
You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything. Oprah Winfrey
possibility
All our acts have sacramental possibilities. Freya Stark
possibility fine wanted
I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight. Robert Kirkman
possibility results
How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result. Thomas Carlyle
possibility exciting
3-D is a truly exciting possibility. Ron Howard
possibility cases genes
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. Steven Pinker
possibility pessimist optimist
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
possibility
I'm very much open to the possibilities. Matthew Lewis