There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news.… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar,… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One theory is that the universe came from nothing. i.e. perhaps bubble-universes collided, as in a bubble bath, and gave birth to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist,… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.” — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
