Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is… — Mike Hebert Copy Share Image
I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from… — Forest Ray Moulton Copy Share Image
I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life.… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]….… — Judea Pearl Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Reductionism argues that we can learn what 'makes things tick' by looking more closely at matter, examining the underlying units. There are… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Lab Report Sheet The Principle: The Dude Abides Principle The Theory: There is an invisible energy force or field of infinite possibilities.… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
![“More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is…” quote by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8e1/arthur-oncken-lovejoy-100223_argument_more-philosophically-minded-critics-rega_2838932.jpg)
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