When [Jesus] wanted fully to explain what his forthcoming death was all about He didn't give a theory. He didn't even give… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
When we first started 'The Big Bang Theory,' I would get incredibly nervous because it's such a big show and I was… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book.… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a… — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image