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science opportunity progress
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. Richard P. Feynman
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.
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 progress theory
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
science thinking law
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?
science names bird
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
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 progress trying
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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.
gentleman gentlemen
He was a gentleman as he's always been. Harry Sinden
gentleman all-time
We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times. Robert E. Lee
gentleman fields mentality
I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field. Troy Polamalu
gentleman attendance revolution
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants! William Shirley
gentleman crowds may
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. William Shenstone
gentleman liberty should
IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected. Robert Walpole
gentleman want i-want-you
Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong. Samuel Goldwyn
gentleman conversation questioning
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. Samuel Johnson
gentleman
Blondes also prefer gentlemen. Mamie Van Doren
facts honest kids open smarter
Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important. Howard Simon
facts millions
The sum of a million facts is not the truth. William Manchester
facts argument cases
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. Woodrow Wilson
facts lapses judgment
I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible. William J. Clinton
facts dip add
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them. William James
facts use theory
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
facts enough ifs
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
facts principles adequacy
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
facts
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.