“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
But even technical work filled with formulas can be valuable and important. Einstein offered a lot of technical work on quantum physics,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky… And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“the simple algebraic equation ω+k3 = 0. This is called the dispersion relation of (1): with the help of the Fourier transform… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“In the intricate and mutable space-time geometry at the black hole, in-falling matter and energy interacted with the virtualities of the vacuum… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead,… — Paulina Ochoa Espejo Copy Share Image
I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Bohm's interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes,… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“The ultimate unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions has probably not yet been achieved, but a solid beach-head appears to have been… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Even a good, inveterate atheist like physicist Richard Feynman once said of the fine structure constant, “All good theoretical physicists put this… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
“The mind calls out for a third theory to unify all of physics, and for a simple reason. Nature is in an… — Lee Smolin 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
“Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
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