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What all ethical theories critically lack, Christianity uniquely offers: the perfect, ethical example. Christians are not restricted solely to abstract principles for ethical conduct, because in Jesus we have a model for good living.

What are the differences between computer and humanity?? If computer get hot, there is a fan for the computer. If a man get hot, which will mean to much information in head, the humanity start to masturbate! But the question is why computer have one fan and humanity have two hands?? It's simple as that! Fan can be replaced, but one hand can't be replaced if it's broken, so it's gave one more if you have problem with the one to use the other. Take it as a gift!

What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?

What place, then, for a creator?

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of change. For a people is always in the making or unmaking.

You speak in night, not because it’s night, but because it’s dark enough in theory that no one will see you.

Yes, it's simple, really. If you're riding a bicycle and you don't want to fall off, you have to keep going - fast.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.