science

"Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life."

"A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory…"

"Conventional economic theory is built is built on the assumption of diminishing returns. Economic actions engender a negative feedback that leads to a predictable equilibrium for prices and market sha…"

"A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it."

"Sergent’s last thrust represents the unkindest cut in this whole smear campaign. It is not we who have avoided debate. It is these Western scholars who have chosen to conduct a spit-and-run campaign f…"

"These statements were, as he felt even in making them, not only gratuitous, but utterly unconvincing, but he had arrived at that condition in which a man discovers with terror the unsuspected amount o…"

"Science simply forces us to revise what is sensible to accommodate the universe, rather than vice versa."

"Behavioral-finance theory also helps explain why many people refuse to join a 401 savings plan at work, even when their company matches their contributions. If one asks an employee who has become used…"

"istory cannot lend itself to experimentation. But... is potent enough... to eventually bury the bad guy. Bad trades catch up with you... Mathematicians of probability give that a... name: . oughly... …"

"To hope, Hope in what, Hope, just hope, one reaches a point where there is nothing but hope, and that is when we discover that hope is everything."

"Information science” emerges when conceptual explorations, not directed towards immediate practical or technical ends, begin to take place, and they are seen to be concerned with a definable area of i…"

"Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practica…"

"A number of engineers became so-called disciples of Frederick W. Taylor, even though he had passed on to his reward in 1915. A considerable number of engineers took up the so-called scientific managem…"

"My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul."

"Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of e…"

"The theory of organization... has to do with the structure of co-ordination imposed upon the work-division units of an enterprise."

"I don't think there are any irredeemable themes or tropes, just ones that are waiting for a fresh eye. Horror, science fiction, and fantasy deal with the eternal verities, the subjects that have alway…"

"The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it."

"It was impossible not to like Jimmy Carter. He was a deeply committed Christian and a man of obvious sincerity. He was also a man of marked intellectual ability with a grasp, rare among politicians, o…"

"Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science."