Quotes About Theory

From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume's marvelous essays of 1752, 'Of Money and Of Interest,' conclusions about the effect of changes in money have seemed to depend critically on the way in which the change is effected.

In short, the welfare state vision is not simply a theory to be tested empirically but a cause to be promoted and defended, ostensibly for the benefit of the less fortunate. But

Sólo después, cuando el socialismo pasó de ser una teoría a ser un sistema económico real en varios países, se hizo dolorosamente evidente que las personas en los países socialistas tenían mayores problemas para costearse aquellas cosas que, en los países capitalistas, la mayoría de la gente podían comprar con facilidad.

I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a painting on a wall--they're magnetic. The art is the alloy, so to speak. And our souls are equipped with whatever properties are required to attract that alloy. I'm no scientist so I don't really know what the hell these properties are, but my point is we're drawn to stuff we've already got a connection to. Part of the thing is already inside of us.

Screening, the theory of which won enfant terrible Joe Stiglitz a share of the Nobel Prize in 2001, is the art of finding out hidden information by forcing people to act, rather than simply murmur sweet nothings.)

The theory lies in the complexity of the cases.

I didn't say that, Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test. Shall we as the Ascendancy to declare war on someone? I was thinking a little smaller, she said. Come on.

I didn't say that, Ziara protested, eyeing him as a sudden idea occurred to her. But I'm a practical person, and when I hear a new theory I like to give it a test. Shall we ask the Ascendancy to declare war on someone? I was thinking a little smaller, she said. Come on.

From 1776 to 1976 just five books reigned over economics in nearly unbroken succession: Smith's Wealth of Nations, Ricardo's Principles, Mill's Principles, Marshall's Principles, and Samuelson's Economics. What they lack in imaginative titles, they make up in endurance.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

She did know that once tattooed one could no longer expect to lie for all eternity in an orthodox Jewish cemetery. They wouldn't even bury women with pierced ears. A strange theory of mutilation from the people who invented cutting the skin off the pee-pee.

This may sound sexist,' Joslyn said, 'but my theory is that men like the Civil War because it's an action story, they're caught up in the battlefield drama. The prisoners are an emotional side of the War. Women are attracted to all that raw feeling, we understand it better....

enthusiasm for Communism in theory was characteristically present in inverse proportion to direct experience of it in practice.

An older generation of free market economists used to point out that what is wrong with socialist planning is that it requires the sort of perfect knowledge (of present and future alike) that is never vouchsafed to ordinary mortals. They were right. But it transpires that the same is true for market theorists:

The intellectual case for planning was never very strong. Keynes, as we have seen, regarded economic planning much as he did pure market theory: in order to succeed, both required impossibly perfect data.

I have a theory that all kitchens, if sufficiently occupied and loved, grow their own appliances.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

The theory-practice dichotomy that still bedevils many a theological curriculum serves neither seminary nor church. There is a debilitating dichotomy between what Christians believe (doctrine) and how they live their lives (discipleship).

What it means" is ultimately not a matter of theory only but of practice, not a matter of sheer knowledge but of wisdom.

Born to Rebel: Birth Order Family Dynamics and Creative Lives, a book that contained overwhelming statistical evidence that birth order theory does have credence and validity.

Your parents were right. They beat me by completely inverting my theory. Kids don't kill art. Art kills kids.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

I must doubtless admit that the paleontologist's view that heavily made-up women are prone to hysteria is an extremely astute theory.

So: as of 2011, after many decades of being the official and much-funded hypothesis, the Aryan Invasion Theory has still not been confirmed by even a single piece of archaeological evidence.