“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
“At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions—so the theory itself would determine the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Lab Report Sheet The Principle: The Dude Abides Principle The Theory: There is an invisible energy force or field of infinite possibilities.… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
“The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of… — Peter Bodo Copy Share Image
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]….… — Judea Pearl Copy Share Image
“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Reductionism argues that we can learn what 'makes things tick' by looking more closely at matter, examining the underlying units. There are… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should… — John Walford Copy Share Image
One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the… — Chris Sanders Copy Share Image
Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I… — Darrel R. Falk Copy Share Image
“This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Theology is just not important in Judaism, or in any other religion, really. There's no orthodoxy, as you have it in the… — Hyam Maccoby Copy Share Image
“It is a little known fact that in 1901, when Einstein was 21 years old and traveling in Italy with his then… — Gregory Watson Copy Share Image
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“When rocks are liquid or nearly liquid, what geologists call plastic, they contain a certain amount of rubidium and a certain amount… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
![“If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a00/nikola-tesla-1383_bees_if-he-thomas-edison-had-a-needle-to-find_97217.jpg)
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