Theoretical Quotes
248 quotes by 211 authors
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical…
— J. J. Abrams
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
— Jeff Bezos
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to…
— David Bohm
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know,…
— Eric Clapton
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The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would…
— Nikola Tesla
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that…
— Pete Wilson
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
— John Pringle Nichol
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such…
— Michael Faraday
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I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as…
— Francis Crick
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
— Max Born
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In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably…
— James Boswell
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.…
— Albert Einstein
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