An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's… — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the… — John Pringle Nichol Copy Share Image
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