Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the ...

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

In the last generation, this country produced one of the most eminent men of science in the whole world. His name was quite unknown among us while he lived, and it is still unknown. Yet I may say without too great exaggeration that when I heard it me...

The Theory of Education in the United States

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that H...

The Valley of Unknowing

Technician: [presenting Hawking with the speech-generating device] Welcome to the future. Stephen Hawking: [speaks for the first time] My name is Stephen Hawking... Jane Hawking: [astonished] It's American! Technician: Is that a problem? Jane Hawking...

The Theory of Everything

Paul Smecker: [Agent Smecker walks up to the first crime scene, where Chekov and his partner lay dead] Brilliant. So now we got a huge guy theory, and a serial crusher theory. Top notch. What's your name? Detective Greenly: Detective Greenly. Who the...

The Boondock Saints

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

Samuel Johnson

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

Richard Dawkins

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.

The Emperor's Soul

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

Alison Gopnik

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Kenichi Fukui

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Nate Mendel

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

Philippe Perrin

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Robert Evans

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Simon Newcomb

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Tony Abbott

I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

Karl von Frisch

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

Britt Ekland

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

Mohammed Morsi

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scott Westerfeld