As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a… — Richard Dawkins 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
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ... — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for… — Tom Ellis Copy Share Image
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the… — William H. Masters Copy Share Image
But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image