Gravitational waves, because they are so imperturbable - they go through everything - they will tell you the most information you can… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
“Figure 4.1: Both dark matter and dark energy are invisible, which means that they refuse to interact with light and other electromagnetic… — Max Tegmark 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
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Here's my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“There is a most profound and beautiful question associated with the observed coupling constant, e - the amplitude for a real electron… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my… — Hannah Arendt 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
Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an… — Zachary Knighton Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. — Danny Bonaduce Copy Share Image
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in… — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Copy Share Image
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to… — Nancy Cartwright Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump appears to be searching for an enemy. Is it flag burners, recounts, the press, the popular vote? Trump has gone… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach Copy Share Image
As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe. — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image