Theoretical Quotes · Page 5

“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.”

— Shulamith Firestone

My hope is that the film Wall Street 2 will actually serve as a way for us to bridge that gap between…

— John Buffalo Mailer

Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of…

— Joaquin Fuster

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…

— Nicholas Metropolis

As far as a theoretical point of view for my generation, I'm probably the most successful theoretician. I mean, double albums and…

— Billy Corgan

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

— Pierre L. van den Berghe

What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's…

— Lisa Randall

Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I…

— John Maynard Keynes

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature…

— Allen W. Wood

I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes…

— Stephen Hawking

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us…

— Tom Robbins

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

— Heinz Pagels

This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines,…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If…

— Sam Shepard

Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are…

— Max Horkheimer

The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall…

— August Krogh

There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of…

— Tom Rosenstiel

During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were…

— Linus Pauling

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

“Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

— Esther McVey

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may…

— Judith Butler

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

— Josh Peck

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or…

— Richard P. Feynman