Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly)… — David Albert Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
