Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in… — Gersonides Copy Share Image
To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I'm steeped in aesthetic theory, so I tend to bring in my own amateurish way of baring a little bit - when,… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The early 20th Century was probably the high tide of global white supremacy - I'm going to call it that because that's… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“These two discoveries, of relativity and of the quantum, each required us to break definitively with Newtonian physics. However, in spite of… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even though all that CO2 has been spewed and belched into the atmosphere, there isn't any warming. Therefore, the person, people, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Prototypes of inventions that use novel combinations of resonance, magnetism, states of matter, certain geometries or inward swirling motion to unlock the… — Jeane Manning Copy Share Image
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a… — Val Logsdon Fitch Copy Share Image
Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, it is conjectured, in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
If you bang two electrons together with enough energy, you produce protons. If there are no independent laws, then all the properties… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.] Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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