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- I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that…
- Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
- Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with…
- In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one…
- In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if…
- I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person…
- It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.
- The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
- Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the…
- What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in…
- The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
- I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my…
- If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
- I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.
- No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
- It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to…
- [Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means…
- No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process…
- There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it…
- If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- I have just got a new theory of eternity.
- Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,…
- My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so… — Christian Bale
- Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams
- Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number… — Evan Bayh
- All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. — Yogi Berra