Quotes About Theory

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

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

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

To decipher pure theory into intellectual practice is education.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.