The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science,… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Science is the process of crash testing ideas: you ram the idea head-on into a brick wall at 60mph, and knowledge is… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
“In a single century, quantum physics performed an extraordinary inversion. Uncertainty, once the enemy of the knowledge, became the engine of creation.… — Ph.D Ludmila Morozova-Buss Copy Share Image
“Newton, whose thinking we will discuss in the next chapter, considers the universe as infinite in extent. Gravitation would have all masses… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“Every object is embedded in the vacuum with which physics surrounds it. This means we don't observe the naked object-rather, we see… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
What are you going to do? What do you want to do?” she prompted. “I’m going to go try to help Niall.… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy,… — Bob Hoskins Copy Share Image
Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Now Nostradamus said that the king of Terror would appear September 1999. I believe Nostradamus knew his Bible and knew what the… — Jack Van Impe Copy Share Image
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
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away -… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Ideas matter in New York. I am certain that more conversations in New York are about ideas than anywhere else. Not just… — David Frost Copy Share Image
Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
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