Theory Quotes - Page 5

• Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Yesterday, Today, Accepted

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

  Dean Ornish

  Often Is, Ideas, Scientist

  "The Power of Science" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.

  Lyn Gardner

  Beautiful, Drama, Spring

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• Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

  David Batchelor

  Order, Limits, Language

  Gary Hume, Adrian Searle, David Batchelor, British Council (1999). “Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999”

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• How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

  E. W. Howe

  Dog, Wish, Age

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• MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

  Phineas Quimby

  House, Mind, Enemy

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (19??). “Christ Or Science: Chapter IV, the Quimby Manuscripts”

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• We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prove, Performances

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

  Steven Weinberg

  Marriage, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

  Jack Newfield

  Adversity, Data, People

  Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books

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• I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ignorance, Thinking, May

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, May, Reason

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Leader, Links

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

  Colin Powell

  Past, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.

  Patrick Carney

  Stupid, Labels, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even though all that CO2 has been spewed and belched into the atmosphere, there isn't any warming. Therefore, the person, people, whatever, predicting global warming for any reason have been wrong for 20 consecutive years. Every year for 20 years the supporters of this theory have been wrong, as wrong as it's possible to be. That means that the person predicting global warming is not credible and does not deserve to be listened to.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Years, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of genetic material, or that it's a celebration of life, or you can make up 50,000 theories about why human beings have sex, all of which are in some sense true, all of which by themselves miss the point. Because the answer is extraordinarily complex. It may be for fun, it may be for reproduction, for financial reasons, any number of things.

  George Friedman

  Sex, Fun, War

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Every theory I've seen that contains an explanation of war fails. I think they fail for the same reason that explanations of sex fail. War derives from things so deep and so complex, I'm thoroughly baffled by it at the end of the day.

  George Friedman

  Sex, War, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.

  Paul Saffo

  Kids, Technology, Years

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Life Is

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• My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Names, People, Different

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• My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed companies to adopt a consumer orientation and to be in the value creation business. I didn't pay much attention to the social responsibilities of business until later. Now I am pressing companies to address the triple bottom line: people, the planet, and profits. I found that companies were too much into short term profit maximization and they needed to invest more in sustainability thinking.

  Philip Kotler

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy, such as disallowing accessory apartments - under the theory that renters are incapable of behaving decently.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Stupidity, Mixing, Retail

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, School, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final and that I can do it again, better. The pacing is probably from experience. I've always liked gradual disclosure. I keep thinking of my rubber-band theory. You have a rubber band that you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, and just at the moment of snapping you release it and start another chapter and start pulling again.

  Robert Cormier

  Thinking, Finals, Band

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

  Mark Helprin

  Way, Interpretation, Scientific Theory

  Source: americasfuture.org

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