“The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?” LastsFightingPartyHappenedTheoryClubsCrashRelativityFew FriendsRumbleTheories Of Relativity Book:The 9th Girl Source: The 9th Girl
“The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.” BigsHappenedTheoryBangs Author:Alan Guth
“The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.” IfsWayLooksHappenedCreationTheoryEvolutionEvidenceAssumingEnormousQuantityCompellingEnormous Quantities Author:Richard Dawkins
“I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHumansWellsRealBigsNiceHappenedTheoryIncrediblesStringsReal WorldCosmicConspiracyNice ThingsString Theory Author:Edward Witten
“The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.” DoeHandsLyingLeaderHappenedInfluenceInformationTheoryImportanceReasoningPeculiarRevoltSecond Hand Book:Aims of Education Source: Aims of Education
“I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical puzzles that are not nearly so well worked out as physics theories and never can be... What has happened in Japan over roughly the last ten years has shaken up academic economics, as it obviously should, creating strong worries about recession from "wealth effects" in reverse.” ShouldWellsStrongWealthCommonWorryHappenedConditionsEffectsTheoryCreatingEconomicsCurrentsExtremesPhysicsMathematicalAcademicReversePuzzlesEconomistRecessionsPhdsAppraise Author:Charlie Munger
“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
“Sometimes I do feel exposed. I have this kind of theory about different channels or levels of relaying experience - when I tell someone, one on one, in a personal context, about something that's happened to me - that has a very different valence, a different charge, than when/if I've said it in a public forum.” IfsFeelsKindSaidDifferentSometimesLevelsHappenedTheoryExposedForumsOne On One Author:Leslie Jamison
“I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he's probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, "Oh. They're putting a political hack in. This has never happened before."” ThinkingYearsFactsPoliticalHousePresidentWhiteDealsHalfFiveHappenedPositionTheoryIndependenceNot SureFive YearsWhite HouseHacksChatterEntirety Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman.” LongStoriesHappenedTheoryMetsBillsLifetimeClintonCourtshipOnce In A Lifetime Author:Rush Limbaugh