Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much… — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,… — Willie Garson Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“When Dirac was an old man, younger physicists often asked him how he felt when he discovered the [Dirac] equation. From his… — Graham Farmelo Copy Share Image
We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in… — David Stoddart Copy Share Image
I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances… — William Lawrence Bragg 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
I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's… — Marilou Copy Share Image
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering into it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“Can you expand on your answer concerning dark matter, which I asked about in a previous session? It is a placeholder… — J. Steven Reichmuth Copy Share Image
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment...… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics… — Anna Russell Copy Share Image
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![“When Dirac was an old man, younger physicists often asked him how he felt when he discovered the [Dirac] equation. From his replies, it seems that he alternated between ecstasy and fear: although elated to have solved his problem so neatly, he worried that he would be the latest victim of the…” quote by Graham Farmelo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27d/graham-farmelo-105503_fear_when-dirac-was-an-old-man-younger-physic_1664045.jpg)
![“[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.” quote by Antonia Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b3/antonia-fraser-14421_abnegation_in-16th-century-european-society-marriag_2784828.jpg)
![“[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.” quote by Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15e/camille-paglia-652_brands_t-he-most-viciously-intolerant-campus-i_2381193.jpg)
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