When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis. — Elizabeth Kenny 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
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? — Gemma Halliday Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it. — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them. — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
