Quotes About Theory

Those economists who have recognized that the value of even the best money is variable have recommended that in settling the terms of credit transactions, that is to say, the terms on which present goods are exchanged for future goods, the medium of exchange should not be one good alone, as is usual nowadays, but a 'bundle' of goods; it is possible in theory if not in practice to include all economic goods in such a 'bundle'.

the Quantity Theory resembles various general theories of value (many versions of the doctrine of supply and demand, for example), which have not attempted to explain price as such but have been content to establish a law of price-variations.1

the subjective theory of value

the relations between the equilibrium rate of interest and the money rate of interest, which will be dealt with in the Third Part of this book.

Tacitly underlying Marxian theory is the nebulous idea that the natural factors of production are such that they need not be economized.

I know what love is, but only theoretically. I don't feel it the way other people do.

One way or another, no matter which theory of our journey is correct, it's myself I address; to whom I rehearse as to a stranger our history and condition, and will disclose my secret hope though I sink for it.

You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.

Richard Potter had no need to work and spent his time delving into occultism and was deeply steeped in occult theory and practice and is believed to be the central character in the children's witchcraft novel Harry Potter that recently "came out of nowhere" to become a runaway success, but which we now know was the tales of Richard Potter revamped by the Tavistock Institute and then given to an unknown author to "write.

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

Theory can blind observation.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

Evidently she was one of those people who like to cling to a theory once they have made it.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither is it a crude bashing of Obama. Rather, it is an effort to understand Obama, to discover what motivates him, and to formulate a theory that explains his actions in the White House. It offers a completely original theory for what drives Obama, and yet remarkably the theory is derived from Obama's

But her voice sounded wistful. It is one of her theories that a woman must never be jealous, never try to hold man against his will; but I could tell that she hadn't enjoyed seeing someone else bring father to life.