Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Just as an age was ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop… — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe… — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall 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
A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I don't shop much, but my go-to brands are Topman, John Varvatos, AllSaints, Marc Jacobs, and Theory. Of course I like Nike;… — Kendrick Sampson Copy Share Image
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
