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
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Going into 2010, we didn't expect the consumer pullback that happened. We all thought that the theory that concerts are recession-proof was true. — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics… — Anna Russell Copy Share Image
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade 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
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in… — Raya Dunayevskaya Copy Share Image
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
