Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism . — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
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 most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.… — David M. Kreps Copy Share Image
One of the main ways in which I get attacked is by being called a conspiracy theorist by the right and the… — Naomi Klein 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
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
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
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
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and… — Don DeLillo 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
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker 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
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. — Jacques Necker 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
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
Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think the best article was the article about radical feminists being against transgender women. I found that the most fascinating article… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try… — John Ridley Copy Share Image