One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of… — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original… — David Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Terrorism - radical jihadist terrorism is not theoretical to me. It's real. And for seven years, I spent my life protecting our… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
