No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist. — Gerald Posner Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I have been…moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in… — Brian May Copy Share Image
I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. — Prentice Marshall Copy Share Image
Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. — Jacques Necker Copy Share Image
Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical. — T.I Copy Share Image
But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to… — George Voinovich Copy Share Image
Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts,… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image