“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
“Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.” IfsKnowsYearsRomanceThreePiecesModernTheoryHundredCriticsRefuseSillySatireSymbolismChivalry Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
“A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.” IdeasMightPiecesTheoryProveHundredTestsValuableBeing True Book:The Light of Other Days Source: The Light of Other Days
“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
“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.” TwoEarthRememberCoursesHeavenMillionsSunFiveTheoryThousandHundredShadowMethodCastsMathematicalThirtyFiftyPaceInclinationEmploying Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.” WarHalfWindTheoryHundredLondonOperationsBombsDelusionNaziNaiveReapWhirlwindWarsawRotterdam Author:Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
“The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.” YearsHas BeensSometimesNumbersTheoryMassHundredEvidenceMathematicsBranchesTheoremsComputationExperimental Science Author:G. H. Hardy