Quotes with theory

  • I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
  • American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
  • I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
  • We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
  • I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
  • And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
  • You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and believe anything.
  • There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
  • In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
  • Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
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  • Igor Stravinsky In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A theory must be tempered with reality.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Camille Paglia American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • A. N. Wilson Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • James Newman The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Harold S. Geneen You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Edgar W. Howe A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Albert Einstein A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Edgar W. Howe A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Johnson All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Friedrich Engels An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Erickson Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Cayley As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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