Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
The Internet is a really big tent. In theory, it can support the full range of models, one of which is, 'Here's… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a person doesn't think there is a God to be accountable to, then-then what's the point of trying to modify your… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
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“Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect was the work for which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize. It was published in 1905,… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
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There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
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I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
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“A law in physics, called the second law of thermodynamics, says that entropy, or chaos (the opposite of growth…a winding-down process), increases… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
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Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
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“This irrelevance of molecular arrangements for macroscopic results has given rise to the tendency to confine physics and chemistry to the study… — Walter M. Elsasser Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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