A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory. — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image