I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.
Dignam: My theory on Feds is that they're like mushrooms, feed 'em shit and keep 'em in the dark
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
All people have at least their own one theory of an ideal life, but not that which is ideally acceptable to one and all.
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.
What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together
