According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from… — Gerald A. Kerkut Copy Share Image
The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My ad-hoc empirical formula is that wherever you grow a lot of rice, there is a lot of art developing as well.… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It… — Robert M Copy Share Image
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different. — Larry McVoy Copy Share Image
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
