I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
“In the end, what is most satisfying about the picture of space given by loop quantum gravity is that it is completely… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found… — Theodore William Richards Copy Share Image
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached… — William Mitchinson Hicks Copy Share Image
“In general the fact that gravitational and inertial forces are both proportional to the mass of the body on which they act… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“This is what makes the subatomic world unique. It possesses not just physical qualities, but also energetic qualities. In truth, matter on… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein… — Daniel Kleppner Copy Share Image
Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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“One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant. ...The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The subject of this chapter is string theory, and I begin it with these reflections for two reasons. First, because the main… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“I think string theory provides an explanation.” “Some think that it is only when two strings encounter each other and some qualities… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru.… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works,… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
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I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“The universe is a quantum computer. Since you can simulate any set of particle interactions with a quantum computer made of the… — David Walton Copy Share Image
![“The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.” quote by Norman Macbeth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e76/norman-macbeth-47158_black_the-simplest-case-where-one-is-informed_1618423.jpg)
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