Quotes About Theory

Erwin Schrödinger . . .' 'He of the cat.

the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation. So really, the world (and everything) might be flat after all. And then again it might not be.)

So anyway, the mind-boggling bit is that the theory hints that the entire universe is just two-dimensional information on a cosmological horizon and that everything we think we see in three dimensions is really as much an illusion as a 3D movie, and it could all be a simulation.

Erwin Schrödinger . . .' 'He of the cat.' 'Yes. The cat guy.

La théorie des mondes multiples de la physique quantique pose comme principe qu'il y a un nombre infini d'univers parallèles divergents. A chaque instant de votre vie, vous entrez dans un nouvel univers. A chaque décision que vous prenez.

The square of every prime number is one more than a multiple of 24.

The Washington Post was condemning in its report of the new theory: "Of all the silly and nonsensical rigmarole about yellow fever that has yet found its way into print—and there has been enough of it to load a fleet—the silliest beyond compare is to be found in the mosquito hypothesis.

Fundamental science is theoretical knowledge, while technology is utilitarian knowledge and contemplative science is liberating knowledge. They can thus complete each other without any conflict.

What we call 'natural' is frequently no more than bad theory.

All theory is at the same time a practice...The link between theory and practice is not one of linear dependency. It is a circular relationship where envelopment is reciprocal.

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

For those who are interested in learning more about Lecky's work, I recommend securing a copy of his book, Self-Consistency: A Theory of Personality. (Note: This book is now out of print.)

The integrity of states is ruled by the socioeconomic well-being theory. The degree of the stability of any social system is proportional to the degree of its economic growth and vice versa. Stated differently, the risk to national integrity increases proportionally to the country's economic decline.

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

Whew, this might be getting a bit confusing. I hope you are following me so far. This is the point in every Theory of Computation course at which students either throw up their hands and say "I can't get my mind around this stuff!" or clap their hands and say "I love this stuff!" Needless to say, I was the second kind of student, even though I shared the confusion of the first.

What are you going to do? What do you want to do?" she prompted. "I'm going to go try to help Niall. He's not acting like himself, and I have a theory on what's wrong," he told her. "Then afterward I'm going to ask you to marry me.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

ridge riding, to use Alvin Gouldner's term—between the Scylla of positivism and the Charybdis of conventionalist constructivism.

The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

Science was completely wrong to jettison the ideas of Plato and Aristotle and will have to return to them if it is ever to formulate the Grand Unified Theory of Everything.

As discussed earlier, when it comes to music, most of us tend to have confidence in our taste even though we may totally lack knowledge regarding historical development or compositional theory. I frequently hear, "I don't know anything about art" but hardly ever, "I don't know anything about music".

Marxists interpreted everything in terms of class; Freudians in terms of childhood; and feminists in terms of gender.

Wallace thought that much of nature showed strong evidence of purpose, as he forcefully conveyed in The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose.4 In other words, in modern parlance, the very cofounder of the theory of evolution was an intelligent-design proponent.