My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“One success of noncommutative geometry is that it leads directly to the standard model of particle physics. As Alain and his colleagues… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
“Over the last three decades, theorists have proposed at least a dozen new approaches. Each approach is motivated by a compelling hypothesis,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Epidemiologic theory. As a phrase, it sounds at once dry and arcane.Yet, in reality, it is vital and engaging. Epidemiologic theory is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“The fact that the force of gravity can be made to disappear for a brief time over a small region around any… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“A consequence of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism is that light rays move in straight lines. Thus it makes sense to use light… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts Copy Share Image
Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not enough… — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but… — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?'… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
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Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
When you have this long of a run [in The Big Bang Theory], you don't have to have something happen every episode.… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when… — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image