“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.” WorldLongStillsSeemsEarthScienceTheoryPeriodsSoldierTerrorWideBoredomPhenomenonPlatesModus Operandi Author:D. V. Ager
“To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.” WorldFactsOpinionTheoryHabitCircumstancesBasesErrorsWideConclusionDataInvestigationUncertainIndispensableFramedOwingAdoptingDiffusion Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?” WorldArtStatesPlayPowerfulTheoryLowsWideEducatedWealthyCharmingWorld HistoryInsufficientShakespeare's Plays Book:True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
“No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasRealClearModernCreationTheoryBuiltFoundationWidePhysicsSignificanceConceptionNewtonRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.” LooksUniverseTheorySizeWideStringsDiscoveringString TheoryGetting Started Author:Rob Bell
“Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.” WorldFirstsProcessEventsCreationTheoryRevolutionBoundsDefeatWideSocialismPermanentRevolutionaryGermanyDefiniteCurvesCalendarsInterdependenceProletariatStalinism Author:Leon Trotsky