We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway. — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
Teachers want to teach you theory, and that's fine, but when it comes to rock and roll, you only need three chords.… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial… — Karl Ferdinand Braun Copy Share Image
I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for… — Bowie Kuhn Copy Share Image
There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
“The field of the electron is real because it results from the laws of quantum mechanics and appropriate initial conditions. The laws… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize… — Nicolas Lemery Copy Share Image
It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We had to understand things like why the top quark was so heavy and the electron is so light. The Higgs is… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out… — Questlove Copy Share Image
When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. — Brian May Copy Share Image
My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs,… — Ross Honsberger Copy Share Image
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about… — Daisy Whitney Copy Share Image
“And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe . . . are the souls of the dead?” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
You are the moon and I am the sun Your light is unlike any other one Promise to guide me through the… — Caroline Downs Copy Share Image
“radioactive Rubidium-87, containing 37 protons (and 50 neutrons), can change or decay to strontium, which has 38 protons. These two elements can… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image