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Quotes About Thesis

Il vaut peut-être la peine de mentionner dans ce contexte un phénomène aussi déplacé qu'irritant, à savoir le philosophe ou soi-disant tel qui croit pouvoir étayer ses thèses aberrantes au moyen de romans et de pièces de théâtre, ce qui revient à inventer des histoires de fous pour prouver que deux et deux font cinq
~ Frithjof Schuon
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Science depends on dialectic in which only when thesis and antithesis are developed can there be an ultimate synthesis.
~ Stephen M. Kosslyn
Marx's once scandalous thesis that governments are simple business agents for international capital is today an obvious fact
~ Terry Eagleton
I did my dissertation on Kafka.
~ Jessie Ware
This leads up to our thesis which still remains to be proven: that the origins of the cataclysm lay in the utopian endeavor of economic liberalism to set up a self-regulating market system.
~ Karl Polanyi
If they were right, there was an absence of conflict not only over the specific case of cosmology but, in principle, over anything else in which scientific and biblical statements appeared to be in contradiction. A "conflict thesis" would have seemed untenable because there was nothing to fight about.
~ Gary B. Ferngren
Even teaching them to write an essay turned out to be dangerous, since the idea of coming up with your own thesis and making an argument based on evidence doesn't exist in North Korea.
~ Suki Kim
You could fall in love with me, you can talk to my shrink, you can hide a tape recorder in my bedroom, see what I talk about from wherever I am when I sleep. You want to do that? You can put together clues, develop a thesis, or several, about why characters reacted to the Trystero possibility the way they did, why the assassins came on, why the black costumes. You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth.
~ Thomas Pynchon
But when one looks at the problem of mental illness from a completely secular perspective, Jamison's implicit thesis (clearly meant to be hopeful and hope-filling) in fact can fill me with more despair than ever.
~ Kathryn Greene-McCreight
simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework)
~ Caleb Carr
My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals.
~ Carl Jung
There are in the Pauline teaching four important structural lines and in connection with these it will prove easiest and most convincing to test our thesis. These consist of the idea of the resurrection, the thought of salvation, the doctrine of the judgment and justification, the conception of the Spirit.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Gwen went up to Cambridge and read Moral Sciences and started on a Ph.D. thesis on Frege.
~ Iris Murdoch
Let us assume you've made your point.
~ Isaac Asimov
What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are not me. These are fleeting thoughts and observations and not presented as truths but as something that illuminates the character and the dynamic between the characters. This kind of dialogue is thesis and antithesis - and we never get to a synthesis.
~ Whit Stillman
La tesis central de Popper es que, para predecir los sucesos históricos, es necesario predecir la innovación tecnológica, algo en sí mismo fundamentalmente impredecible.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One thing Mr Chaudhuri has overlooked in his remarkable thesis on Hinduism: no religious community in India would take this tarring and feathering of all that they hold sacred save the Hindus.
~ Khushwant Singh
The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
~ J. Frank Dobie
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
~ Edgar Mitchell
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
their black skin. Further affirming such concepts of black inferiority was a steady stream of authoritative statements by LDS leaders and spokesmen brought forth from the 1830s to the early 1970s.3 Such controversial assertions notwithstanding, major aspects of this thesis has since been incorporated, all or in part, by subsequent scholars in their own studies of Mormonism and race.4 ******************
~ Newell Bringhurst
The "thesis neurosis" has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowardly to address. This student will never graduate.
~ Umberto Eco
writing a thesis is like writing a book, working incrementally with the professor is a communication exercise that assumes the existence of an audience
~ Umberto Eco