The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair. — Hassanal Bolkiah Copy Share Image
Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things,… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music. — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
