Quotes About Theories

they were among the most enthusiastic supporters of the new "scientific" anti-Semitic theories that ascribed a host of loathsome traits to Jews' inherent racial characteristics.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe. But there is a fundamental paradox in the search for such a complete unified theory.

Now, if you believe that the universe is not arbitrary, but is governed by definite laws, you ultimately have to combine the partial theories into a complete unified theory that will describe everything in the universe.

Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. On the other hand, the people whose business it is to ask why, the philosophers, have not been able to keep up with the advance of scientific theories.

Hasta ahora, la mayoría de los científicos han estado demasiado ocupados con el desarrollo de nuevas teorías que describen cómo es el universo para hacerse la pregunta de por qué.

Kita malah memecah persoalan itu menjadi potongan-potongan kecil dan menciptakan sejumlah teori yang hanya menjelaskan sebagian. Tiap teori penjelas sebagian itu menjabarkan dan memprediksi sekelompok terbatas pengamatan, mengabaikan akibat besaran-besaran lain.

Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories—the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics

Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.

La mayoría de las constantes fundamentales que aparecen en las teorías están ajustadas con tanta precisión que si su valor cambiara aunque sólo fuera ligeramente el universo sería cualitativamente diferente, y en la mayoría de los casos resultaría inadecuado para el desarrollo de la vida.

Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human beings, unconsciously reflect in their theories the social and political constraints of their times.

As scholars challenge one another within a community that shares norms of evidence and argumentation and that holds one another accountable for good reasoning, claims get refined, theories gain nuance, and our understanding of truth advances.

I do not want to suggest that utilitarianism and Kantian deontology are incorrect as moral theories just because they were founded by men who may have had Asperger's syndrome. That would be an ad hominem argument, a logical error, and a mean thing to say.

Erão os Deuses Astronautas?

Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

I maintain that it is a very odd place to look. What that's called is a singularity, and many theories require a singularity. That means to kick start the intellectual engine you have to go outside the system, and you get one free hypothesis and then once you have used that up your system has to run very very smoothly clear down to the end.

all this theorizing aside, the UFO subject (and the paranormal in general) is FUN, dammit. I love reading about the strangest encounters or sightings, "true" or not–the weirder the better.

Never trust in theories, m'lad, if they're thought up by types who work in offices.

Without the giants mankind would be alone with the rats and the cockroaches. Worse, perhaps, he would be alone with himself. This fuzzy issue had not occupied the futurologists. They cluckclucked over butter mountains here versus starvation there, and supplied their own recipes. They loved their theories more than the world.

I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

Calculating the relevant processes provides full employment for theoretical physicists.

It has been held that, since its essential normativity cannot be accommodated within the natural sciences, we might be forced to throw the concept of action and with it action concepts on the trash heap of outdated theories. With action concepts a logical basis of first person thought disappears. Renouncing action concepts is a form of self-annihilation: logical self-annihilation. It annihilates a source of the power to think and say 'I'.

People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.