“I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.” PeopleMenBookReadingWishWhiteInterestingMillionsTheoryMurderInnocentVery InterestingSantaBeardSanta ClausPrepsBook CoversInteresting Book Author:Ben Stein
“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
“You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.” WorldMillionsStruggleHeardCenturyTheoryGeniusCapitalismDoctrineCommunismCommunistSocialistMarxismNineteenth Century Book:Lenin on Literature and Art Source: Lenin on Literature and Art
“July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” PeopleMenWorldCertainThreeNationsLibertyMillionsRightsTheoryEqualIndependentCreatorPursuitHillsRepresentativesHistoricPursuit Of HappinessJulyInalienable RightsBunkersLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessJuly 4LexingtonBunker Hill Author:Calvin Coolidge
“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.” IfsThinkingYearsMatterHappensEarthGuyTurnsLosesSpaceMillionsSunTheoryBaseballGiantsCosmicThis GuyBurn OutSnowball Author:Bill Lee
“I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. People love to read stories. They like to know you as a real person who has your struggle, pain, success and failure, etc. One well-known example is Jared Fogle's weight loss story which made millions of dollars for Subway. Start to collect your stories from today and use them in your ad campaigns.” PeopleKnowsWellsPersonsMadeRealDoneStoriesUseTodayPainLossKnownMillionsStruggleExampleTheoryWeightDollarsCampaignsEtcAdsWell KnownWeight LossSuccess And FailurePersonal ExperiencesSubwayPersuasiveReal PersonLove To Read Author:David Ogilvy
“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.” PeopleYearsStillsPoliticalPoorPovertyMillionsDemocracyNew YorkProduceTheoryPoliticianEasierBenefitsProgramVoteFavorsAriseRangeTargetBroadsConspiracyPoor PeoplePolitical SystemsConspiracy TheoryMaoStock ExchangeNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Book:Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.” LongFactsDifficultMillionsTheoryConclusion Author:Bill James
“Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.” WorldMayLittlesWarMomentsSimpleMillionsTheorySafeEndureNotionSakeSoldierIsraelThese DaysDesperateFormulasQuartersConspiracyConspiracy TheoryAmerican Soldier Author:Bill Keller
“Someone asked me very recently why I have 8 million views on TED - "your work resonates, what are you doing?" What I think my contribution is, what I do well, is I name experiences that are very universal that no one really talks about. That's the researcher in me; that's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have. That's the researcher part.” PeopleThinkingWellsNamesViewsMillionsTheoryConceptsUniversalContributionGroundedResearchers Author:Brené Brown
“Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.” PeopleWayShouldFirstsLooksCountryHappensCertainActorsAsksNumbersMillionsImpossibleExampleTheoryCircumstancesPreparedDefeatArguingAmerican PoliticsIsisConstraintsInsurgency Author:George Friedman
“Evan Rachel Wood is a robot, yes. And some of them, there was one person in particular that was so sure, wrote like a whole thesis, and tagged the whole cast. He was like, "Here's my theory. And remember I said it first." He was so proud. And it could not have been farther from what we're actually doing, but it was cute. I love that people are getting so passionate about it because I went through a million different theories, and they would keep changing and evolving.” PeopleFirstsPersonsHas BeensSaidDifferentWholeRememberMillionsParticularTheoryProudCastsPassionateWoodsEvolveCuteRobotsThesisTagged Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.” PeopleWayActingMillionsEconomyTheoryDegreesComplexesChaosInteractionIntroducingLiteralAmerican EconomyChaos Theory Author:Nate Silver