“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“In one of our early conversations, Bob said to me, "I like Einstein as a character, because everybody knows who he is."… — philip glass Copy Share Image
Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
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When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and… — Terry Taylor Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“If there weren't any charges, there would be neither absorption nor emission nor any scattering. Light would not impact on the matter… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe.… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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“First, energy is quantised: in atoms it does not take on all possible values but only a ladder of specific values whose… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The shifts happen on a regular basis, but it's like a cycle. So things come in and out of vogue and then… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
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Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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