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- Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when…
- A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
- That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?
- There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so…
- The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been…
- We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a…
- Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique…
- What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct…
- The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
- But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and…
- For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in…
- From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;…
- In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the…
- Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.
- There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of…
- [The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my…
- This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its…
- An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development…
- There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.…
- I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the…
- We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is…
- Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this…
- No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
- Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
- Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of…
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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