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• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  Elihu Root

  Justice, Rehabilitation, Discussion

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Determination, Science, Simple

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Joseph Le Roy Hayden (1917). “Steinmetz Electrical Engineering Library: Engineering mathematics; a series of lectures delivered at Union college (3rd ed. 1917)”

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• In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Feelings, Would Be

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Genius and Common Sense", 1822.

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• I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Doubt, Everyday, One Day

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Tales from the White Hart”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.

  Simon Critchley

  Philosophy, People, Ordinary

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.44, Polity

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• We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one of the problems with the scientific worldview is that it leads human beings to have an overwhelmingly theoretical relationship to the world. For example, I no longer accept my being in the world practically and then try to describe that or elucidate that; rather, I see the world theoretically as colors and objects and representations which are fed through my retina into the brain.

  Simon Critchley

  Color, Brain, Trying

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 1, 2003.

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• You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical a novel, you get into the dangers that the French novel has discovered in the past 50 or 60 years. And you get into a sort of aridity. No, you have to have real, identifiable people to whom the reader reacts in a way as if they were real people.

  Julian Barnes

  Real, Philosophical, Past

  "Conversation: Julian Barnes, Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 8, 2011.

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• To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Needs, Passionate, Affair

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• As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Data, Numbers

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• Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Data, Philosopher, Construction

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.76, University of Chicago Press

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• Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Believe, Long, Taught

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• So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to change the world, has been important from the first, and has continually increased in importance, until it has almost ousted theoretical science from men's thoughts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Important, World

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• There are theoretical physicists who imagine, deduce, and guess at new laws, but do not experiment; and then there are experimental physicists who experiment, imagine, deduce, and guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Imagine, Physicist

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, Basic Books

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• Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

  Ada Lovelace

  Law, Giving, Principles

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• Terrorism - radical jihadist terrorism is not theoretical to me. It's real. And for seven years, I spent my life protecting our country against another one of those attacks. You won't have to worry when I'm President of the Untied States whether that can be done because I've already done it. I want the chance to do it again to protect you, your children and your families.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Children, Real

  Transcript of the fifth Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

  Hermann Weyl

  Teaching, Math, Creative

  Hermann Weyl (1968). “Gesammelte Abhandlungen”

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• Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

  Dominic Lawson

  Playing Chess, Novelty, Jaded

  Dominic Lawson (1994). “End Game: Kasparov Vs. Short”, Harmony

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• Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

  James Madison

  Men, Ideas, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

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• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Fall, Mean, Science

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• The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Life, Damage, Cost

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• A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Teaching, Six Months

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• Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical book—it is a step-by-step manual. Sarah Herrington shares the wisdom she has gained from her day-to-day experiences, for many years, teaching all ages of children yoga in the New York School system.

  Sharon Gannon

  New York, Children, Yoga

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