When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The students on my course were fascinated by the idea that gravitational waves might exist. I didn't know much about them at… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
“with the weak force controlling radioactive decay, the strong force binding the atomic nucleus, the electromagnetic force binding molecules, and gravity binding… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China… — Ye Xiaowen Copy Share Image
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
“Are you familiar," he said finally, "with the Bang?" "The Big Bang?" Luka asked. "Or some other Bang I don't know about?"… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
“The success of discovering a thermodynamic principle associated with the gravitational field of a black hole has led to a speculation that… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike… — 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
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“electricity and magnetism into a set of four elegant mathematical equations. On seeing them, Ludwig Boltzmann immediately recognised the magnitude of Maxwell’s… — Manjit Kumar Copy Share Image
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats.… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than… — Walther Bothe Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who… — Leonard Bacon Copy Share Image
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
If string theory is right, the microscopic fabric of our universe is a richly intertwined multidimensional labyrinth within which the strings of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
![“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1aa/stephen-jay-gould-885_bankruptcy_t-ruly-grand-and-powerful-theories-do-no_1770112.jpg)
