On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom… — Pieter Zeeman 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
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I get paid to do what I love. If you understand physics, the foundation of the atomic theory and relativity, you understand… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory. — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I like to call it the scalar boson because this reflects an essential component of the theory - it means that the… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory. — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature;… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory,… — Joanne Nova Copy Share Image
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments… — John Donvan Copy Share Image
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
