A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“God created… light and dark, heaven and hell— science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We have all been given a gift with 'The Big Bang Theory,' a show that's not only based in the scientific community,… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
“When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, “Looking back over the long and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two… — Charlene Li Copy Share Image
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues… — Gerard 't Hooft Copy Share Image
We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“In particular, a quantity known as the fine-structure constant, which controls the basic fingerprinting for every element, must have remained unchanged for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image