Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

Ben Goldacre

CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

Fabiola Gianotti

[The theory of universal gravitation] is not cast-iron. No theory is, and there is always room for improvement. Isn't that so? Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth. . . Well, that means all theories are subje...

Nightfall

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

Gut?” “General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.

Angels & Demons

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

Literary Theory: An Anthology

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Manfred Eigen

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

John McCarthy

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know. There's not a mechanic or scientist or technician alive who hasn't suffered from that one so much that he's n...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every...

Mrs. Dalloway

What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists; he thinks that the theory has this consequence...

Elliott Sober

what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

The Theory of Clouds

Quantum phenomena do not occur in a space. They occur in a laboratory.

Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods

Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

The Law of Attraction is a theory. Cosmic Ordering is a practice putting that theory to work.

Stephen Richards

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

Stephen Hawking

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

E. O. Wilson

Tidak ada kesalah-pahaman mengenai ilmuwan yang lebih besar daripada kepercayaan yang berkembang bahwa mereka adalah individu-individu yang dingin, keras, dan tak berjiwa.

The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World