The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries — John Herschel Copy Share Image
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which… — Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc Copy Share Image
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image