He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar,… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it… — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The early 20th Century was probably the high tide of global white supremacy - I'm going to call it that because that's… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of… — David Easton Copy Share Image
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job,… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
