“The uncertainty principle “protects” quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The advantage of this interpretation is that we can drop condition number three, the collapse of the wave function. Wave functions never… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Someone asked me very recently why I have 8 million views on TED - "your work resonates, what are you doing?" What… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of physical laws can, in some cases, give you the confidence to confront surly people. A few years ago I was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ...… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Louis and I worked on two projects. In the first we tried to formulate a gravitational theory based on the dynamics of… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
“In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that… — Henry Enfield Roscoe Copy Share Image
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything.… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image