{"quotes":[{"text":"God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["antimatter","big-bang","claims","dark","everything","heaven","hell","light","matter","opposite","opposites","religion","science","the-big-bang","theories","theory","theory-of-everything"],"id":423,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, I.E. With the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected.","author":"Thomas Kuhn","tags":["discovery","exploration","ideas","metatheory","theories"],"id":1000,"author_id":"Thomas+Kuhn"},{"text":"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["causality","error","intelligence","theories"],"id":18441,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure (Einstein's gravity: the theory of general relativity), and one that describes everything our universe contains (quantum field theory), and these two theories won't talk to each other.","author":"Christophe Galfard","tags":["describe","description","efficient","einstein","gravity","mankind","quantum-field-theory","quantum-mechanics","relativity","science","structure","theories","theory","theory-of-general-relativity","uncover","uncovered","universe"],"id":20763,"author_id":"Christophe+Galfard"},{"text":"The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each group member (much the way that colleges recruit individuals with higher test scores to increase the average test scores of their matriculated students).","author":"Zack Love","tags":["attractiveness","books","boys-club","carlos","evan","friendship","heeb","humour","men","narc","theories","trevor"],"id":23040,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence.","author":"National Academy of Sciences","tags":["definition","facts","opinions","science","theories"],"id":35318,"author_id":"National+Academy+of+Sciences"},{"text":"Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["civilization","culture","education","meaning","theories","vagueness","words"],"id":41363,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","actions","familiar","food-for-thought","images","imaginations","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","memorize","memory","mind-power","minds","people","perform","performance","personal-development","practical","practically","take-actions","teach","theories","train","verbal","verbally","words"],"id":47089,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be. Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity.","author":"Raphael Zernoff","tags":["beliefs","questioning","scientific-facts","theories","wisdom"],"id":50868,"author_id":"Raphael+Zernoff"},{"text":"Every time that we consider our past, examine our present environment, and speculate about the future, we engage in mental projection. Contemplation merges into thinking, and thinking unspools into theorizing suppositions. Every act of attentiveness expands our state of awareness. Deductive surmises represent an ongoing process of making applicable connections between theories and facts. Devising working hypothesis represents one of the highest intellectual achievements of humankind.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["attentiveness","contemplation","contemplation-of-life","hypothesis","hypothesizing","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-examination","self-growth","theories","theories-of-meaning","theorizing","thinking","thinking"],"id":51452,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}