“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveStillsEarthFatherProcessSidesWaterChurchViewsCasesFailingLandCenturyTheoryShapesProveMassOppositesSaintFamiliarReasoningCoveredFifthAvoidedEndorsementsAugustineChurch Fathers Author:Saint Augustine
“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records a local error, not the bankruptcy of a central theory. [...] If I mistakenly identify your father's brother as your own dad, you don't become genealogically rootless and created de novo. You still have a father; we just haven't located him properly.” IfsStillsFatherPowerfulRecordsHavensInformationParticularBrotherTheorySourceEvolutionDadClaimsIndependentStructureErrorsLocalsObservationBankruptcyUnifiedInference Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.” SpiritualFatherBeliefPleasureProgressMaterialsTheoryDevelopmentConnectionsDepartmentThank GodOur FatherSpiritual Connection Author:James Anthony Froude
“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?” MenFirstsSaidStatesFatherBornChurchDemocracyCenturyTheoryPropertyEvery ManOrganizedTheftInventorWorkshopsMontesquieu Book:Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers Source: Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers
“God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?” FatherFateModernTheoryDevilTragedyGenreScholarDiabolicalModern Tragedy Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.” ThinkingWayWantUsedLyingFatherSinHellTheoryPrideTasteDevilMeant To BeLiteralSourLucifer Author:Mike Carey
“See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.” FatherStuffTheoryPiano Author:John Fahey
“Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.” ThinkingWorldWantFeelsShouldHumansMadeIdeasPoliticalFatherParentHuman BeingsTheoryBecomingAbstractCriedSentimentalBecoming A Father Author:Boots Riley
“Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.” YearsLastsDiesFatherParentTheoryAdultsDiedLast YearFather Died Book:Platform: A Novel Source: Platform: A Novel
“The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words...to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.” FirstsMadeFactsLastsFatherLordOpinionSupportTheoryArgumentStatementsAbstractDefinite Author:Anthony W. Ivins
“He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out to attack the King directly. Steinitz claimed that the King was well able to take care of itself, and ought not to be attacked until one had some other positional advantage. He understood more about the use of squares than Morphy and contributed a great deal more to chess theory.” WellsUseCareAbleSchoolFatherDealsPiecesPlayerModernTheoryOughtKingsUnderstoodAdvantageWeakTake CareChessSquares Author:Bobby Fischer
“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
“Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.” KnowsBelieveBookStoriesSpiritualFatherWaitingReligiousTheoryReaderSittingLifetimeImpressionAddressesSooner Or LaterConvenientSitting AroundSingularityBeing A FatherTechnoKaleidoscopeSitting Around WaitingFulcrum Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.” PeopleYearsMovingUniverseThreeFatherStarsInterestingNumbersFiguresSonTheoryHolyShapesNotionGhostCyclesHistorianMysticalHoly GhostArthur Author:Marianne Williamson
“I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].” PeopleRememberFacesFatherEnemySawsSonTheoryDefeatBreadAspirationAuschwitz Author:Elie Wiesel
“I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book is called Gravity Is a Push. I wrote to him and told him about my father, and he said he wished he'd met him. My father died quite a while ago.” SaidBookGuyFatherNamesTheoryMetsDiedGravityFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Paul Laffoley
“I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.” LittlesSoulFatherIndividualEnergyFiguresTheoryTraditionMovedChaosPhysicsSparksCosmicQuantumQuantum PhysicsFather FigureChaos TheoryCosmic Energy Author:Bharati Mukherjee