General Theory Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — E. H. Moore
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how… — Thomas Nagel
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.… — Gerald A. Kerkut
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give… — Alexander Hamilton
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. — Albert Einstein
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. — Michael Moorcock
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of… — Richard Courant
Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they… — Edward Tufte
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the… — Sir John Richard Hicks
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it… — William S. Burroughs
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets… — George Soros
It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original… — Robert B. Laughlin
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is… — Umberto Eco
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp… — Stephen Hawking
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete… — Murray Rothbard
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all… — Milton Friedman

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