Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell 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
There's stable subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, electrons - and then there's unstable ones that decay into stable ones. One will become… — Kysa Johnson Copy Share Image
“All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be… — George Wilson Copy Share Image
Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures…… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“Einstein had a similar conversation with his friend in Prague, Philipp Frank. “A new fashion has arisen in physics,” Einstein complained, which… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“All modern work on unification may be said to represent a program of geometrization that resembles Einstein's earlier attempts, although the manifold… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would… — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Quantum mechanics has a similar problem, a problem related to the zero-point energy. The laws of quantum mechanics treat particles such as… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
“Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were “elementary” particles, but experiments in which protons were… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as… — George Perle Copy Share Image
I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece Copy Share Image
“For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible… — Charles P. Enz Copy Share Image
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
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