It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence. — John Brunner Copy Share Image
I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image