Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
“They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“What is important here is that for every given curvature there are precisely fixed masses. And since we recall that the virtual… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
Osteopath--One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt,… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Observing gravitational waves would yield an enormous amount of information about the phenomena of strong-field gravity. If we could detect black holes… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Despite streaming, despite the rise of tablets and smartphones - all the implications which in theory would make linear TV less important… — Martin Sorrell 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
“A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins.… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody gets better looking on TV as shows go on.Even the nerds on "Big Bang Theory" are getting better looking. Their clothes… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside.… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Einstein’s brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
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