I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“We can now infer that at this initial cooldown of the universe across the critical temperature of 10^15 degrees, a mini planetary… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“This was true of any and every aspect of knowledge; you figured out how to learn it, and you exposed yourself to… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think in theory, Donald Trump could be a formidable candidate, right? The theory of him is, if he ignites working class… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator, the duplicitous manipulator, the sinister puppeteer is one with ancient roots and… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“The German physicist Max Planck, after whom these unimaginably small quantities are named, introduced the idea of quantized energy in 1900 and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
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