To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Maybe I’m just tired. (Geary) People only say that when they’re not really willing to deal with the issue at hand. It’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“Extending Polyakov's argument, he found evidence that the string theory describing those emergent strings is actually a ten-dimensional supersymmetric string theory. Of… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have a little theory about that, too. It's clearly envy. It's bringing people down to your size. It's a narcissistic impulse… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent… — Thomas Sangster Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process.… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“The function ei(kx-ωt) represents a wave that travels at a speed of ω/k, which we have just shown to be equal to… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars?… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The mind reels when we realize that, according to this interpretation of quantum mechanics, all possible worlds coexist with us. Although wormholes… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
