Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts… — Bertram Brockhouse Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.' — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
My theory is that women simply can't get along with each other or work well together. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.]… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. — John McCain Copy Share Image
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that. — Richard Lloyd Copy Share Image