Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible?… — Pieter Zeeman Copy Share Image
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
I have a theory that because my kitchen is small, you can't preheat an oven and deal with dough at the same… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as… — Nick Cohen Copy Share Image
If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The current crisis in particle physics springs from the fact that the theories have gone beyond the standard model in the last… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“We want union with something, even if the opposite seems true. Bring two atomic nuclei together and their positive electrostatic forces will… — Sean J. Halford Copy Share Image
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the titles are treated in a straightforward way, nobody is really interested. The theory is that in those two or three… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to… — James Corden Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
