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BOB SANDERS
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the cl... NIELS BOHR
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experimen... WERNER HEISENBERG
Nobody understands quantum theory. RICHARD FEYNMAN
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on... MAX PLANCK
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory... MICHIO KAKU The belief in causality is metaphysical. It is nothing but a typical metaphysical hypostatization of...
KARL R. POPPER Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately afte...
DAVID GROSS
Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity... ELLIS PETERS
Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality. ABHIJIT NASKAR My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs—torn,...
E.J. STEVENS
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks ALBERT EINSTEIN
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, a... LEONARD SUSSKIND
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a... SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science ha...
SEAN CARROLL
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time... MICHIO KAKU
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood... NIELS BOHR People are very insecure. It's a common thread, ... All of these people have security questions in s...
JAMES CLYBURN The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
EOIN COLFER
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping ... BILL BRUFORD
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. NIELS BOHR The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominan...
LEONARD PEIKOFF
String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum... BRIAN GREENE
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one ... ALAN STERN
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b... SIR WILLIAM BRAGG God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them b...
WILLIAM BRAGG SR.
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we l... SAUL BELLOW I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
DAVID GROSS I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.
ROBERT AUMANN QPR has not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculation...
GIANNI PALADINI By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and amon...
CHAUNCEY WRIGHT Now he was…dust. To an outside observer, these ten seconds had been ground up into ten thousand un...
GREG EGAN
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif... ANTONIN ARTAUD Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the H...
EDWARD WITTEN The European Commission overreached itself in the G.E.-Honeywell case. It pushed theories like the '...
ALEC BURNSIDE Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has ...
DANIEL E GEER JR. Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you ...
PETER J. CARROLL There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical the...
EDWARD WITTEN
One needn't be a crank to miss the scientific boat. The very paragon of genius, Albert Einstein, cou... ALBERT EINSTEIN
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-t... NATHAN MYHRVOLD A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers....
KALERVO V. LAURIKAINEN
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a c... WERNER HEISENBERG
Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.... ALBERT EINSTEIN
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security. DIANNE FEINSTEIN
There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measure... LISA RANDALL
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now univer... ERWIN SCHRODINGER A university student attending lectures on general relativity i the morning and others on quantum me...
CARLO ROVELLI Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.
KEVIN MICHEL The African was defined and treated as being of a lesser human species than even the lowliest among ...
THABO MVUYELWA MBEKI We are seeing a shift from the destruction of data to the theft of data. They are going from hacking...
DEAN TURNER It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction ...
MARCUS CHOWN The effects of smoking on human health are enormous; yet, little is known about the pharmacologic ef...
JOANNA FOWLER Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on a...
JAMES MARSH
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and q... BRIAN GREENE
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially i... ANDREA DWORKIN
Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanic... BRIAN GREENE
Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ide... SOURCE UNKNOWN All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matte...
IAN HACKING Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' ins...
IAN HACKING Great books are rare.
IAN HACKING Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of ...
IAN HACKING Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
IAN HACKING Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not qu...
IAN HACKING Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as poss...
IAN HACKING Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But li...
IAN HACKING It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
IAN HACKING A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscu...
IAN HACKING One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where ...
IAN HACKING I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one t...
IAN HACKING If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural ferti...
IAN HACKING The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revo...
IAN HACKING Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for th...
IAN HACKING Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling...
IAN HACKING I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
IAN HACKING Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist...
IAN HACKING Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If...
IAN HACKING Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relative...
IAN HACKING In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
IAN HACKING What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowled...
IAN HACKING Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about fri...
IAN HACKING I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the intera...
IAN HACKING Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
IAN HACKING The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
IAN HACKING Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a f...
IAN HACKING The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and ho...
IAN HACKING Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to fol...
IAN HACKING The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have...
IAN HACKING Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars�...
IAN HACKING Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
IAN HACKING The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proport...
IAN HACKING Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
IAN HACKING Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and t...
JOHN POLKINGHORNE The concept of “social justice,” which purports to promote equality among the lines of gender an...
IAN MILES CHEONG
Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? GERRY ADAMS QPR have not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculatio...
GIANNI PALADINI Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure ...
CHRISTOPHE GALFARD Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mecha...
ROY H. WILLIAMS
The central predictions of the quantity theory are that, in the long run, money growth should be neu... ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
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