Theoretical Quotes

248 quotes by 211 authors

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
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos
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
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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