Theoretical Quotes

248 Theoretical quotes by 204 unique authors

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. — Howard Aiken
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there… — Rudolph A. Marcus
In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in… — Wilhelm Ostwald
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo,… — William C. Brown
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate… — Johannes Stark
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because… — Scarlett Thomas
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader. — Adolf Hitler
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's… — Elihu Root
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in… — James F. Cooper
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. — Talcott Parsons
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. — Kenichi Fukui
You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To… — Paramahansa Yogananda
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin's… — David Sloan Wilson
As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded… — Theodor Adorno
For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no… — Rajneesh
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much… — Chogyam Trungpa
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they… — Ludwig von Mises

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