When a theater goes dark for the night, a stagehand leaves a lighted lamp on stage. No one knows why any more,… — Emily Mann Copy Share Image
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes,… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology. — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they… — Sark Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security,… — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
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