The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“the universe may, in fact, be bigger than this, because the notion of inflation suggests that in the first second of its… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“When theoretical physicists have no clue what something is, how it works or what the hell is going on, they start tacking… — Terence Thirteen Copy Share Image
Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
“Of course, minute as its impact may be in our physical universe, the fact of quantum entanglement is this: If one logically… — Brian McGreevy Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations.… — Max Born Copy Share Image
If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
“Are you familiar," he said finally, "with the Bang?" "The Big Bang?" Luka asked. "Or some other Bang I don't know about?"… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA… — N. Katherine Hayles 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
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are… — June Millington Copy Share Image
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in… — David Stoddart Copy Share Image
“When Dirac was an old man, younger physicists often asked him how he felt when he discovered the [Dirac] equation. From his… — Graham Farmelo Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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