The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My theory is that you find out who your true friends are when something good happens to you, not when something bad… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“At the behest of Princeton's President, all of Einstein's lectures were very technical. They included more than one hundred and twenty-five complex… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
“Problem 1: Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature.… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming… I remain to be convinced about… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.' — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Going into 2010, we didn't expect the consumer pullback that happened. We all thought that the theory that concerts are recession-proof was true. — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
“Neils Bohr … is said to have remarked that anyone who did not feel dizzy when thinking about quantum theory had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
“Acid strength is measured by the pH scale, with lower numbers being stronger, and in 2005 a chemist from New Zealand invented… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
After 'DmC' came out, we had a fantastic relationship with Ninja Theory, and we loved what they made. We wanted to see… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
“Some object that unless we have some explanation of what it is for a proposition to correspond with the facts, the theory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only… — Sam Sheppard Copy Share Image
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
“For string theory to make sense, the universe should have nine spacial dimensions and one time dimension, for a total of ten… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity.… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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