Quotes About Theoretical

The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

They had become like young kittens after a dose of cat–nip. He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

You're about to drink wine that didn't come out of a box, remarkable. Possible Nobel Prize remarkable. I haven't begun to determine if there are any real-world applications, but on theoretical grounds this could be a huge breakthrough.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability. —Pierre Simon Laplace, Théorie Analytique des Probabilités, 1812

common sense just "knows" what the appropriate thing to do is in any particular situation, without knowing how it knows it.7 It is largely for this reason, in fact, that commonsense knowledge has proven so hard to replicate in computers—because, in contrast with theoretical knowledge, it requires a relatively large number of rules to deal with even a small number of special cases.

The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

En toda disputa teórica subyace la idea de la existencia de una verdad común; si cada cual tuviera su propia verdad, no habría disputas. (32)

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today's physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

The method of this great philosopher [Kant] can serve as a pointer to the satisfying solution to our problem. Of course we don't have to slavishly adhere to Kant's form, but we must match his method to the nature of our own subject [socialism], displaying the same critical spirit. Our critique must be direct against both a scepticism that undermines all theoretical thought, and a dogmatism that relies on ready-made formulas

My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but, personally, I'm not comfortable attaching myself to them - I don't seek them out. What you can say about my home is that it's not very ambitious.

Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering

If we try to make general inferences about the theoretical possibility of a reliable computational model of the brain, we ought indeed to come to terms with the mysteries of quantum theory.

As long as theoretic knowledge remains the privilege of a handful of "academicians" in the Party, the latter will face the danger of going astray.

The psychical energy model is, therefore, a theoretical model brought by Freud to psychoanalysis: it is in no way a model derived by him from the practice of psychoanalysis. Secondly...

Moreover it is assumed that wormholes only join universes to baby universes, or universes to themselves; there are no wormholes joining different baby universes in this approximation, nor are there allowed to be wormholes which split up into two or more other wormholes.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.