After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and… — Simon van der Meer Copy Share Image
I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it,… — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
..if the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Schrödinger's cat has a 50% quantum chance of coming out of the box alive and a 50% quantum chance of coming out… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
“Quarks are quirky beasts. Unlike protons, each with an electric charge of +1, and electrons, with a charge of –1, quarks have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally… — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“All this attending educational lectures and reading is greatly tempting, of course, and a great many would-be students spend their whole lives… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“…let us point out precisely the difficulties of empiricism as a theory of knowledge. First, it begins with two fixed, unchangeable ultimates--mind… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
“In the 'Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,' the trajectory of your life is no longer just one straight path to an… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that… — Wilhelm Wien Copy Share Image
The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“it is not difficult to understand why the general principle of relativity (on the basis of the equivalence principle) has led to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. — Leonard Susskind 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
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen.… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to… — Finneas Copy Share Image
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
