If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre 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
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss 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
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for… — Nancy Pearcey 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
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
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