As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? — Gemma Halliday Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it. — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them. — Constance Fenimore Woolson Copy Share Image
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on… — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. . — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
“Alas, the historical name is ‘actor-network-theory’, a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.” — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that… — Ernest MacBride Copy Share Image
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