Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in… — Raya Dunayevskaya Copy Share Image
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory,… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too… — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life,… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece Copy Share Image
There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will… — John T. Scopes Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
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