Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

The Scientific Analysis of Personality

All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.

Calvin and Hobbes: Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is educatio...

Peter Agre

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

John L. Phillips

It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.

A 'Final Theory' of God

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

A Working Theory of Love

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Lee Smolin

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Michael Polanyi

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

James Stephens

[last lines] Jane Hawking: What you're writing? Stephen Hawking: Look what we made. [they look at their kids]

The Theory of Everything

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to unders...

Social Theory and Social Structure

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have th...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.

A 'Final Theory' of God

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Set Theory and Its Logic

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Kary Mullis

The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

Clayton Christensen