Theoretical Quotes · Page 14

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

— Alan Huffman

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as…

— Rudolf Virchow

“Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.”

— Shulamith Firestone

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably…

— Jan Morris

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if…

— Anton Chekhov

I am certainly influenced by certain post-structuralist traditions but also a number of other theoretical archives as well - including the brilliant…

— Henry Giroux

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

— Dominic Lawson

Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some…

— David Harvey

Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie…

— Michel de Certeau

Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem,…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.

— Wolfgang Pauli

I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human…

— Edgar Mitchell

I think one of the things we learned from the physicists and also the theoretical biologists is the idea that when you're…

— Kenneth Arrow

Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the…

— Adam Pascal

...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels…

— Albert Einstein

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

— Siri Hustvedt

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples,…

— Kevin Vanhoozer

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,…

— Albert Camus

I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident…

— Stephen Colbert

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

Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people,…

— Simon Critchley

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.…

— Albert Einstein

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more…

— Ada Lovelace

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and…

— Hermann Weyl