In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an… — Bertrand Russell 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
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,… — Auguste Comte 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
One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding… — Kathy Reichs 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
Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which… — Mikhail Chigorin 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
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
Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a… — Alan Keyes 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
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 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
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 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