Sentence examples for famous thought from inspiring English sources
Erwin Schrodinger thought it so bizarre he invented his famous thought experiment -- a cat is both dead and alive until consciously observed.
There is, however, one case where Thomson's famous thought experiment has a real and gripping power: pregnancies that result from rape.
He gives the example of a famous thought experiment in which an attempt is made to build the world's greatest car by assembling the world's greatest car parts.
A famous thought experiment asks what you would do with a terrorist who knew the location of a ticking nuclear bomb.
[1]) One of the architects of utilitarian ethics, and a forerunner of Singer's logic, was William Godwin (1756-1836), who formulated a famous thought experiment.
As in philosopher Robert Nozick's famous thought experiment The Experience Machine, most people instinctively feel it's wrong to spend our whole lives in a simulation.
A really canonical work such as The Interpretation of Dreams might seem just a little too intimidating to the Freud virgin; but you can take an alternative volume - Totem and Taboo, say - and feel confident that you'll get a flavour of the famous thoughts without having to feel too dutiful towards the text.
Until the mid-1930s whEinsteinein, Podolsky and Rosen published their famous thought-experiment with the intention of showing that quantum mechanics was incomplete, Bohr spoke as if the measurement apparatus disturbed the electron.
Their timing as good: two weeks later, Steve Jobs penned his famous 'Thoughts on Flash' letter, making it very clear to advertisers that if they wanted to reach iOS users, they'd have to do it using HTML.
The move to thought, and thereafter to language, is perpetrated with the use of Wittgenstein's famous idea that thoughts, and propositions, are pictures—"the picture is a model of reality" (TLP 2.12).
In his hands, conventions of landscape, cityscape, portrait, and still-life painting and of monochrome and chromatic abstraction suggest the famous scientific thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat: an animal that, by logical necessity of a quantum theory, is both dead and alive.
