The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver.… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
I work in string theory. This is a branch of physics which assumes that the elementary objects in the universe are not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Nature has been engineering quantum effects at scale for 13.8 billion years. The Sun is the prime exhibit. It is the ultimate… — Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects.… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
“In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes. { Advising his… — Philipp von Jolly Copy Share Image
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The expectations of theory colour perception to such a degree that new notions seldom arise from facts collected under the influence of… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus… — Stacey Bendet Copy Share Image
“Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in… — Randall Cobb Copy Share Image
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested,… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy… — Peter Piot Copy Share Image
And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image