#heo

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#management #maybe #probability #risk #risk management

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. ↗

— James Lovelock

#god #i #know #religion #requires

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. ↗

— James Lovelock

#any #around #been #come #evolution

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#keep #making #necessary #open #out

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #evolution #example #fact #fault

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#between #bodies #close #collective #contact

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#academic #elite #feminist #men #originating

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#knowledge #logic #make #men #tendency