“I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?” ChildrenSaidHandsFamilyTheoryKissingStrikesSundayPsychologistSlapMy BirthdayMeasles Author:Erma Bombeck
“When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.” Has BeensSaidBookEnoughTheoryHundredCriticsProfessorsNaziRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Jacob Epstein
“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.” PeopleThinkingMenWayWellsSaidTheoryBecomingDoctorsPatientPhilosopherRefugeWell SaidNicomachean Ethics Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.” Has BeensSaidChristianPrinciplesTheoryFascinatingDisplayFundamentalistAnthropic Principle Author:Deepak Chopra
“An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street." This clearness and ease of comprehension, here insisted on for a mathematical theory, I should still more demand for a mathematical problem if it is to be perfect; for what is clear and easily comprehended attracts, the complicated repels us.” IfsMenShouldFirstsMadeSaidStillsProblemPerfectClearStreetsTheoryDemandComplicatedMade ItMathematicalEaseMathematicianComprehensionClearnessMathematical Problems Author:David Hilbert
“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.” WantBelieveSaidStatesSeemsLanguageAnimalDoorsDogMastersTheoryBabySpeechOrdinaryPhilosophicalObviousDenyMilkInfant Author:John Searle
“Thus evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns — warm or cold — is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.” SaidTheoryColdEvidenceConsequenceClimatePatternsWarmProofWeatherGlobal WarmingCorrectness Author:Ilana Mercer
“Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.” MaySaidWholeWisdomPoliticsSoundEconomyCrazyTheoryLiberalismFormulasVegetablesRecallsThey SaidCompoundsCopernicus Author:James J. Kilpatrick