When the act of pursuit is complete, pleasure shows it's untamed power. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a… — Albert Einstein 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
One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so… — Richard P. Feynman 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
If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping. — Sidney Morgenbesser 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
Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult. — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human… — Wilhelm Dilthey 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
The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image