Theoretical Quotes
248 Theoretical quotes by 204 unique authors
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
— James Madison
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
— Albert Einstein
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What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child…
— Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
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The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical…
— Cindy Sherman
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Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
— Adam Pascal
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As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is…
— John Paul Stevens
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I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore…
— Linus Pauling
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Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes…
— Unknown Author
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to…
— Charles Darwin
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The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical…
— David Deutsch
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I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about…
— John Coltrane
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
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The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
— Thomas Aquinas
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It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
— Unknown Author
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One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears…
— J. Willard Gibbs
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves.…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of…
— Rudolf Virchow
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Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was…
— John Pople
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I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were…
— George Soros
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I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
— Max Born
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I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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