Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond… — Charles Coulson Copy Share Image
I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I… — Brian Schmidt Copy Share Image
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I used to think I knew everything, but older you get the more you see other areas. If you could read everything… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.… — Howard Wolpe Copy Share Image
My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early… — Elisa Kreisinger Copy Share Image
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
“Tony Rothman points out, “Why the second law should distinguish between past and future while all the other laws of nature do… — Melanie Mitchell Copy Share Image