My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're… — Seal Copy Share Image
The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory. — August Wilhelm von Hofmann Copy Share Image
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it… — Dale Jamieson 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
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image