#theories

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#brain #conjecture #consciousness #darwinism #evolution

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. ↗

— Max Born

#always #been #cases #continuity #happenings

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ↗

— John Wilmot

#before #bringing #children #got #had

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. ↗

— John Wilmot

#before #children #had #i #married

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#century #enlightenment #major #philosophers #secular

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#guessing #scenario #scenarios #speculation #theories

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us... ↗

— Faith Brashear

#defrauded-nations #fraud-and-conspiracy #justice #liberty #life-lessons

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #funny-humor #god #higher-self

Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet. ↗

— James Morcan

#amazon-com #barack-obama #bilderberg #bill-clinton #clinton