Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them,… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call… — Byron Katie 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
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
