Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“I came up with a theory: pain must need your attention to exist. If you can direct your attention away from the… — Ron Miscavige Copy Share Image
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear. — J. D. Trout Copy Share Image
No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly)… — David Albert Copy Share Image
“The principle of conservation of boson number inside a system is seen to follow directly from the Abstraction Model. The IBMs are… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000)… It… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Experiment: testing the '9 lives' theory. First attempt: cat not moving after throwing it from the roof. Conclusion: theory is false — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us… — John Redmond Copy Share Image
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