Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy,… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it… — Ravi Gomatam Copy Share Image
“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of… — Peter Bodo Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot… — John Howard Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic… — Michio Kaku 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
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
