“We know that the uncertainty relation implies not only the absence of empty space but also the nature of the minimal content… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where… — Democritus Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, no matter how confident we are in our observations, our experiments, our data, or our theories,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide,… — Thomas Roberts Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image