“We can now infer that at this initial cooldown of the universe across the critical temperature of 10^15 degrees, a mini planetary… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“This was true of any and every aspect of knowledge; you figured out how to learn it, and you exposed yourself to… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“What is important here is that for every given curvature there are precisely fixed masses. And since we recall that the virtual… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The energy of the vacuumin the universe presents us with a dilemma: We know, on the one hand, that this energy must… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Quantum physics - the idea that there is more than one reality going on at the same time in the same place.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
“In the world described by quantum mechanics there is no reality except in the relations between physical systems. It isn’t things that… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.]… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long,… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very… — John Gribbin Copy Share Image
There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
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