Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently.…

— Aristotle

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces…

— Erich Fromm

The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes,…

— Michael Haneke

If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes…

— Bill Gates

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of…

— Judith Butler

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been…

— Talcott Parsons

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual…

— Colin Quinn

Humanism has many meanings, but what attracts me about it is that it encourages men and women to take a broad view of situations…

— Joseph Badaracco

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very…

— Louis Althusser

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

— Trofim Lysenko