[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
“Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“I've got a theory about uniforms. I think they design them so that you become, like, a nonperson, so that you're not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Newton’s laws aren’t fundamental, they are emergent; that is, they are what happens when quantum matter aggregates into macroscopic fluids and objects.… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made… — Christophe Galfard Copy Share Image
To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of… — Ali Larter Copy Share Image
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were… — Michael Brooks Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false. — Enver Masud Copy Share Image
“When Maxwell’s equations didn’t pick out any aether or any physical medium whatsoever for light it was because there is no physical… — Dr. Thomas Stark Copy Share Image