Night had fallen, and Diane admired the deep sky behind Steve’s calm countenance. They looked into each other’s eyes again and felt the spark and excitement of discovery. As if to celebrate the perfect, life-enabling...

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.

Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light.

Including matter itself, antimatter

People who always arrive early aren’t worth waiting for.

Theory of the Three Represents.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the...

Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result of a measurement can be used, it must be interpreted—nature’s answer must be...

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories....

This is a bubble, plain and simple. Every bubble has a theory about itself and every bubble bursts. There’s never been an exception.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book. It is these optimized solutions that make up and drive the non-abstract parts...

Time is relevant to where you are.

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth...

The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn’t cheat on taxes, avoid cops,...

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk… A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery...

A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The...

Die Kunst des Rezensierens besteht nicht zuletzt darin, selbst über langweilige Bücher fesselnd zu schreiben.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism...

We only have theories about the biggest waves, because it’s hard to get observations to quantify the theory.

People ignore facts which contradict the theory in the mind of the investor. Dis-confirming evidence must be seeked out to beat this theory.

The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of...

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

Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens….inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the...

It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again.”Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive...

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a ‘what’ created the universe; the theist believes a ‘who’ created the universe.

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.

Right now I’m thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It’s a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy – and it...

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

The theory of everything.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Reward theory. Some people just aren’t worth your tears.

There is a common tendency to turn off one’s imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply...

Theory is like a book.It’s full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.

Proof’ is the hallmark of religion.

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey’s Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the...

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There’s a garuda to get airborne.

It is … through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

If there are infinite dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent…

I am not levying a charge, it’s the truth. Ask anybody ‘¦ it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s fact-based.