I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally… — Frank Sulloway Copy Share Image
Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis… — Donald Shoup Copy Share Image
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, How would I… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
[T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the… — Serge King Copy Share Image
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
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![“To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so…” quote by Leo Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3dd/leo-strauss-12446_adopted_to-avert-the-danger-posed-by-theory-to-l_1610746.jpg)
![“[T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.” quote by Serge King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/47a/serge-king-58859_answers_t-he-shaman-treats-all-realities-as-subj_1720517.jpg)
