Quotes About Theory

some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!" He

Hitler's one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.

To All the World: I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of solid, concentric spheres; one within the other, and that it is open at the poles twelve or sixteen degrees. —J. Cleves Symmes of Ohio, late Captain of Infantry, April 10, 1818; quoted in Sprague de Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond, New York, Rinehart, 1952, x

The social theory of conspiracy, Popper says, is a consequence of the end of God as a reference point and of the consequent question, Who is there in his place? This place is now occupied by various men and powerful, sinister groups that can be blamed for having organized the Great Depression and all the evils we suffer.10

no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the hermeneutic practice, there is a circle; it does not matter how holy or how vicious.

One theory holds that the CIA has spotted them already but the information is being withheld until it is ruled out that they are hoarding weapons of mass destruction like blowpipes.)

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

M?t?ik?cakra is the theory of the alphabet. This theory teaches us that the whole universe is created by God, Lord ?iva, as one with, and not separated from, His own nature. He has created this universe in His own Self as the reflection of His sweet will.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch." "I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered.

We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized.

God sighed, for all physical processes are reversible in theory—but not in practice.

If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.

Disse che mi avrebbe preso nove. In teoria la soluzione in un tempo così breve avrebbe meritato il massimo, aggiunse, però se mi avesse messo dieci avrebbe dato per implicito che non c'era nulla da migliorare e avrebbe contribuito a farmi sprecare il mio talento.

A natural counterpart to the theory that minds constitute a world other than 'the physical world' is the theory that there exist ways of discovering the contents of this other world which are counterparts to our ways of discovering the contents of the physical world.

For this theory is just another unsuccessful attempt to wriggle out of a perfectly mythical dilemma.

The regress is infinite. and this reduces to absurdity the theory that for an operation to be intelligent it must be steered by a prior intellectual operation.

If ordinary men never report the occurrence of these acts, for all that, according to the theory, they should be encountered vastly more frequently than headaches, or feelings of boredom; if ordinary vocabulary has no non-academic names for them; if we do not know how to settle simple questions about their frequency, duration or strength, then it is fair to conclude that their existence is not asserted on empirical grounds.

The main object of this chapter is not, however, to discuss the whole trinitarian theory of mind but to discuss, and discuss destructively, one of its ingredients. I hope to refute the doctrine that there exists a Faculty, immaterial Organ, or Ministry, corresponding to the theory's description of the 'Will' and, accordingly, that there occur processes, or operations, corresponding to what it describes as 'volitions'.

He applies in his practice what Aristotle abstracted in his theory of such practices.