The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah. — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind… — Soong May-ling Copy Share Image
The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You know the Einstein waves can be thought of as a distortion of space and time. But the way we see it,… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
The best way to make friends with an audience is to make them laugh. You don't get people to laugh unless they… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“If there are infinite dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Yes, those ten-billion-dollar twenty-seven-kilometer-long machines are good for more than just finding bosons named after Peter Higgs.” — Jorge Cham Copy Share Image
The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos… — Chelsea Handler 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
There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was… — Noah Baumbach 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
California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end,… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested… — The Rev Copy Share Image
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal… — Rudolf Clausius Copy Share Image
One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
