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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
superstitions academy built
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. Robert Green Ingersoll
superstitions layers sensitive
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
superstitions speak loud
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going. Steven Blum
superstitions fourth loses
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
superstitions worship invisible
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition. Thomas Hobbes
superstitions needs grows
Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. Stephen King
superstitions entitled
We're all entitled to our superstitions. Tea Obreht
superstitions ritual
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
superstitions belief dies
But superstition, like belief, must die... Philip Larkin
birth date maiden maybe obviously people suspect throw
I suspect the fraudster obviously had my name, my date of birth and maybe my mother's maiden name. People do not actually think about what they throw into the rubbish. Richard Cohen
birth causes defects increased mental risk
It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.
birth control futile past talk trying
It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive. Charles E. Wilson
birth children god good grant hope love loves nor prayer reward shall thee thy wealth
IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake. Swami Vivekananda
birth happens hard might patience people whatever
It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. C. S. Lewis
birth provided security social
When they (police) first approached me at The Falls, I provided them with my real name, my real address, social security number, birth date, so on and so forth.
birth birth-and-death cycles
Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle. Carl Jung
birth greatness human life purely sublime worldly
Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Sathya Baba
birth georgia greatest history today
Today is the greatest day in the history of Georgia -- this is the day of our dignity, the birth of a new Georgia. Mikhail Saakashvili