The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution was not formally published until shortly before Faraday's death. Evolution was yet to be discovered during Faraday's life.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives — our skin color, the land or concrete… — Cherríe L. Moraga Copy Share Image
“Dirac found that the ratio of the electric force to the gravitational force of an electron-proton pair is roughly equal to the… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The role of empirical work in informing our philosophical theories, as I see it, is not that it gives us a better… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Quantum science suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have got to ensure that things like critical race theory are not creeping in and causing our children to hate the… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
“You’re the keyboard wizard; the Google Scholar; the armchair expert; the one with a quote for every occasion. That’s your Hallmark, if… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
“Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as… — R.C. Harvey Copy Share Image
Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To say we evovled from apes is an argumentative phase/I don't have time for theories or a broad thought plan/Science can't document… — C-DASH Copy Share Image
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain… — Joey Santiago Copy Share Image