The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for… — John Pople Copy Share Image
Alchemy and Kabbalah are later developments in my thinking. I think the primary interest has been the relationship of magic and mystery… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites;… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the… — Christopher Strachey Copy Share Image
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any… — Lev Artsimovich Copy Share Image
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
