I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is… — Ralph Caplan 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
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
