We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. That's not just my theory or point of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I think 'The Big Bang Theory' is one of the greatest written TV shows of all time. — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if… — Moby Copy Share Image
If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
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![“The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate…” quote by John Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71c/john-lennox-19396_alternatives_the-world-of-strict-naturalism-in-which_2446870.jpg)
![“[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure…” quote by John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e6d/john-maynard-keynes-1380_adapted_t-he-theory-of-output-as-a-whole-which-i_2448131.jpg)
![“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try…” quote by Richard Hamming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ae/richard-hamming-14135_acorns_when-you-are-famous-it-is-hard-to-work-o_2457509.jpg)
![“The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.” quote by David Deutsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc1/david-deutsch-18612_biology_the-whole-scientific-process-resembles-b_2458815.jpg)
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