Theorist Quotes

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To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental… — Claude Bernard
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this… — Christopher Isham
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.… — Albert Einstein
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of… — David M. Kreps
It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
During the shooting of a scene the directorâ€™s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the… — Akira Kurosawa
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian… — Richard Heinberg
The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday,… — Norbert Wiener
Iâ€™m not a conspiracy theoristâ€”Iâ€™m a conspiracy analyst, — Gore Vidal
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a… — Rudolph A. Marcus
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant… — Douglass North
I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that… — Marco Rubio
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental… — Steven Weinberg
Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people… — Edward Snowden
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. — Robert K. Merton
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an… — Leon M. Lederman
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those… — Hendrik Lenstra

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