“Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Is that all?" asked Flambeau after a long pause. "Have we got to the dull truth at last?" "Oh, no," said Father… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the… — Nevil Vincent Sidgwick Copy Share Image
“... if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]… — Francois-Joseph Servois Copy Share Image
Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting.… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“As a gas of normal matter pulls together-or, rather, falls together-it transforms gravitational potential energy into thermal energy. In other words, it… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“At a reception at the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, which now boasts the world's most interesting statue of Einstein,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“At a temperature of 10^10 degrees, the energy of the photons of the electromagnetic/thermal radiation becomes that needed for the creations of… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
There can never be two or more equivalent electrons in an atom, for which in a strong field the values of all… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“No we talked about matter- most notably quarks, those tiniest possible components of everything.They come in six flavors, you know: up, down,… — Stephanie Kuehn Copy Share Image
I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section… — Isao Tomita Copy Share Image
I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“The apparent strengths of the forces in any field theory depend on two kinds of numerical parameter: the masses (if any) of… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I think one of the great things behind game theory, or game development, especially in education now, apropos, digital and new media,… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Someday, when the ultimate laws of physics are in our grasp, we may discover that the notion of time isn't actually essential.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image