We have all been given a gift with 'The Big Bang Theory,' a show that's not only based in the scientific community,… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
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“When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, “Looking back over the long and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The principle of conservation of boson number inside a system is seen to follow directly from the Abstraction Model. The IBMs are… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly)… — David Albert Copy Share Image
“If you are ever forced to take a chemistry class, you will probably see, at the front of the classroom, a large… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is… — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made… — Christophe Galfard Copy Share Image
We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000)… It… — Fred Hoyle 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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