An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in… — Gersonides Copy Share Image
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and… — Lawrence Jackson Copy Share Image
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
“I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical… — Philip C. Plait Copy Share Image
There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice. — John Alexander Dowie Copy Share Image
