Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“This is what creationists say of evolution, that it’s “only” a theory, it hasn’t been proved, as though this in itself is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice… — William Labov Copy Share Image
So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]….… — Judea Pearl Copy Share Image
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
You already said that,” Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. “You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations,… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most.… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped.… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might agree, say… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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