Theorists Quotes

• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  Yogi Berra

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.483, Princeton University Press

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Science

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

  Fredric Jameson

  Political, World, Imagine

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• Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

  Giulio Douhet

  Change, Smile, War

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.54, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

  Carl Schmitt

  Equality, Political, Democracy

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• We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  World, Too Much Information, Information Overload

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and simulation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

  Russell Kirk

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.274, Regnery Publishing

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• I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

  Patti Davis

  Veteran, Conspiracy, Obsessed

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• I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run everything and are looking out for themselves at our expense. Add it up and you get LOTS more conspiracy theorists.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

  William A. Dembski

  Design, Evolution, Accommodations

  "What Every Theologian Should Know about Creation, Evolution, and Design" by William A. Dembski, www.arn.org. 1996.

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• Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . It's a nifty volume, not only because it gives you a sense of what our most highly regarded military theorists are thinking but because sometimes what they're thinking is the last thing you'd expect. Especially interesting is a section called 'Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations,' which tells us: 'Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction' and 'Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.'

  David L. Ulin

  Military, War, Marine

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• But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.

  J. L. Austin

  Names, Quality, Different

  "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 73), 1979.

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• I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Hair, Logic

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

  William A. Dembski

  Design, No Friends, Evolution

  "What Every Theologian Should Know about Creation, Evolution, and Design" by William A. Dembski, www.arn.org. 1996.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Hands, Community, Producers

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• A rare theorist turned experimentalist.

  Willis Lamb

  "Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics". Book by D. Kaiser, p.37, 2005.

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• In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Selfish, Men, Thinking

  "Notes on a Theory of Philanthropy". "Philanthropy and Public Policy", edited by Frank G. Dickinson, 1962.

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• I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!

  George Ritzer

  Night, Thinking, People

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• Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

  Harold Lasswell

  Mind, Doubt, Atheism

  Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Practice, Want

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• People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Gay, People, Paint

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 64), 1975.

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