Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference? — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
“The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Copy Share Image
I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Faith and daily life, faith and work-these are not separate things. They are one and the same. To think of them as… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen. — David Gross Copy Share Image
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image