Quotes About Theory

In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.

The lion's share of the problems that really bother us don't call for additional technology, theory, philosophy, or data (we're up to our necks in that); instead, the problems call for the ability to change what people do. And when it comes to this particular skill, demand far exceeds supply. Given

There was in the mountains, and perhaps in the world at large, a theory of compensation that held that for everything given something else was immediately and visibly lost. Well, you've got the smarts even if your cousin did get the looks. Compliments, seductive as flowers, thorny with their opposites: Yes, you may be smart but you sure are ugly; You may look nice but you didn't get a brain. Compensation; balance in the universe.

Modern Monetary Theory was in some ways a re-introduction of Keynesian economics into the climate crisis.

most economists are still working within the empty-world model of economics.

Do you think people get interested in studying psychology because they're troubled in the mind? It's a common theory.

That is the great pleasure of conspiracy theory—not explanation, but narrative. It is like Scheherazade.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration.

El cálculo, la teoría de variable compleja, la teoría cualitativa de ecuaciones diferenciales, la teoría de grupos y la geometría diferencial estaban cubiertas;

singularities (places where space and time are infinitely warped)

Has Joules calmed down yet?" I asked her. "Did he find the culprit?" "The Tower's latest farfetched theory? Nanoseconds before his lightning hit, the Priestess somehow swooped in and 'insta-drowned' the twins, shoving water into their lungs. He's furious and plans to go 'spearfishing' for her.

In ogni caso va usato il buon senso che – e non solo in montagna – vale più della teoria, soprattutto se conti di tornare a casa a raccontare la storia.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

A belief is an uneducated guess.