“Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“People ignore facts which contradict the theory in the mind of the investor. Dis-confirming evidence must be seeked out to beat this… — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable. It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang. Sometimes… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones,… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Namely, each messenger particle is a string that’s executing a particular vibrational pattern. A photon is a string vibrating in one particular… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
This is a derivative, if you will, of Cloward-Piven [theory]. "[Stephen] Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated 'strike' on mortgage,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I always say Manny [Ramirez] is a strange guy. Outwardly, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories… — Bronson Arroyo Copy Share Image
Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training… — David Simon Copy Share Image
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
An apple fell and Newton discovered the law of gravity. Hundreds of bombs fell on Palestine and no one discovered the law… — Danish Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
“The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
“Which of the two possibilities corresponds to reality is simply unknown until a definite measurement is made, at which point the quantum… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another… — Fischer Black Copy Share Image
Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer,… — John R. Pierce Copy Share Image
If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
The visible and near-ultraviolet emission spectrum of the CH radical has been known ever since spectra of an ordinary Bunsen burner have… — Gerhard Herzberg Copy Share Image
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image