The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The running joke on set [of the Westworlds] was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“ut = -uux - uxxx. Why is it that this equation gives rise to the remarkable stability of the solutions that was… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It was a grand triumph but not one easily understood. The skeptical Silverstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“String theory promises to take a further step beyond that taken by Einstein's picture of force subsumed within curved space and time… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“In fact, confusion over units was not confined to electricity and magnetism. When two people spoke of a quantity like 'force' or… — Basil Mahon Copy Share Image
However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Too bad you didn't just take Max up on his offer, Four. Well, too bad for you, anyway," says Eric quietly as… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Matter is energy plus information. You and I, our bodies are matter. Our minds depend on that. There is no part of… — Justina Robson Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
“Apparently, when people travel between dimensions, their physical forms are "no longer observable," which is a quantum mechanics thing, and explaining it… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“If our material reality is some form of interface and there is another underlying geometry involved, how would we notice it? I… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
“But Einstein refused to be mathematics’ pawn. He bucked the equations in favor of his intuition about how the cosmos should be,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
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