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We present a series of hypotheses and speculations, leading inescapably to the conclusion that SU(5) is the gauge group of the world — that all elementary particle forces (strong, weak, and electromagnetic) are different manifestations of the same fundamental interaction involving a single coupling strength, the fine-structure constant. Our hypotheses may be wrong and our speculations idle, but the uniqueness and simplicity of our scheme are reasons enough that it be taken seriously.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

...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.

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

Architecture theory is very interesting.

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

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

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 the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

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 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.

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 just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

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 work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.