The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and… — Lawrence Jackson Copy Share Image
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
“I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical… — Philip C. Plait Copy Share Image
There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice. — John Alexander Dowie Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly)… — David Albert Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both… — Alfred Russel Wallace 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
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
