The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all… — Joseph Lovering Copy Share Image
CANNOT BELIEVE BOTH GOSPEL AND EVOLUTION. I say most emphatically, you cannot believe in this theory of the origin of man, and… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there's been any use of nerve gas it's the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible… The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“It has been wished, and wished again, that the universe could hold perfect moments in perfect memory, the clearest remembrance of things… — Alexx Bollen Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is… — Sten F. Odenwald Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.)… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of [this] is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as… — Alfonso Garcia Robles Copy Share Image
“Do you think things always have an explanation?” “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and… — Chen-Ning Yang Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“SYMMETRY BREAKING The preferential direction fixed by this spontaneous symmetry breaking will now determine which among the elementary particles will share in… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the general theory of relativity follows Mach's ideas, it can be seen as expressing the distribution of masses in terms… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“This unification of forces and motion has a simple consequence. In a particle theory, you can freely add all kinds of forces,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
![“Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/488/stephen-jay-gould-885_biology_each-worldview-was-a-cultural-product-bu_305934.jpg)
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