Quotes About Theory

Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook.

Practical knowledge is always surrounded by questions while theoretical knowledge always surrounded by success !!!

the agency of a creator, who is not however always the starting point, and we find that the theory of evolution is combined with the theory of creation, so that Prajâpati is sometimes spoken of as the creator while at other times the creator is said to have floated in the primeval water as a cosmic golden egg. Eschatology;

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Milton Friedman. Friedman had a solid MV = PQ doctrine from which he deviated very little all his life. By the way, he's about as smart a guy as you'll meet. He's as persuasive as you hope not to meet.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

In a crisis we are all Keynesians.

Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind, so that seeing the future without aging alongside it was at least theoretically, possible.

Theoretical books teach you that something is the case. Practical books teach you how to do something you want to do or think you should do.

You will also find authors who do not know the difference between theory and practice, just as there are novelists who do not know the difference between fiction and sociology.

The truth was, he had no girlfriend. Everyone was his girlfriend. This was his theory--float and drift. Be in love with everyone you see. The heart is a bucket without a lid. Maybe he had read it in a play. But it seemed to work.

Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or of someone with a vitamin deficiency.

La teoría es la práctica de los impotentes

The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

Did you ever hear of the turd theory? she asked. He shook his head. It goes like this. You think if a certain obnoxious person wasn't in your life, then everything would be just peachy. Then that person is miraculously out of your life, and behold, another turd floats to the top, Jill said.

I loved him, you know, but I have a theory about love. I think that, however good it is, some love isn't meant to be for ever.

Lo amaba, ¿Sabes?, pero tengo una teoría sobre el amor. Creo que, por buenos que sean, hay amores que no están destinados a durar para siempre

I am a big believer in the theory that the mental health and environmental stresses placed on a mother (of any species) play a role in the issues her offspring inherit.

theory is an extremely complicated thing, as varied and mixed-up and contradictory as life itself.

politically correct theory, the one the vamps

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I do love a conspiracy theory myself, but I'm more of an alien, mermaid sort of conspiracy girl.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.