“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.” IfsWayTryingYearsEndsCoursesTeachPracticeStudyFourTeachingTaughtTheoryFour YearsEngineeringUnbroken Author:Charles Kettering
“There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.” DifferentLawDarkKnownFourDivineTheoryAncientProphetRegionsProvidenceEnlighteningDivine Providence Book:Guide for the perplexed Source: Guide for the perplexed
“Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.” WorldShouldHumansMayPhilosophyMightPastPoliticalStruggleDemocracyFourRightsCenturyTheoryStructureHuman RightsVainHumanistStemConstructsComfortingPolitical PhilosophyPrescriptionsCrudeHeirsSupremacyDeterminismPersonal FreedomTerritorialBourbonCredoMaritimePragmatistsBonaparte Book:Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World Source: Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World
“Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.” EnoughBigsFourTheoryCriticsPredictionsBangsBiasedQuench Author:Joseph Silk
“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsFactsWould BeChangeFourChangedTheoryBecomingHundredConstantRadicalNow And ThenBecoming MoreReconstructionScientific TheoryGravitation Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?” YearsRealityEarthScienceThreePoliticsNaturePartyHistoryFourGenerationsTheoryProveClimateBillionsIdeologyTeaFree SpeechHurricanesTea Party Author:Rand Paul
“Einstein didn't speak until he was four, leading most of his teachers to believe he was crazy. That is until he whipped out the theory of relativity. BAYUM! Showed you guys.” BelieveGuySpeakTeacherFourCrazyTheoryRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.” IfsWayPersonsDifferentUseMightFourTheoryLettersComplicatedBarsEducatedIdeologyDiscussionAgendasPushingSpheresConspiracyMarxistDowntownConspiracy TheoryEducated PersonFour Letter Words Author:Noam Chomsky
“People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidAgeFatherBornFourHappenedHeardTheoryMusic IsSymphonyConductorAffinity Author:William Shatner