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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• 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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• 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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• Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Light, Waiting, Leaving

  "Excerpt: 'Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'" by Vincent Bugliosi, abcnews.go.com. May 15, 2007.

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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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• Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

  Leopold Kronecker

  Math, Numbers, Giving

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• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Radical Feminism, Class, Feminist

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.42, Routledge

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• Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on.

  John A. Hiigli

  Art, Design, Parent

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• A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

  Steven Weinberg

  Today, Programming, Evidence

  "Particle physics, from Rutherford to the LHC". Physics Today, August 2011.

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• Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.

  Neal Stephenson

  Meditation, Everyday, Kabbalah

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.274, Spectra

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• It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

  Prentice Marshall

  Reality, Numbers, Cheerleader

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• Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

  Jacques Necker

  Public Opinion, Fool, Failing

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• Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Book, Writing, Science

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Government, Goal, Political

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• A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

  Alan Ryan

  Book, Two, People

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• The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and a student of gravitational relativity on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday, he is praying... that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.

  Norbert Wiener

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

  Gore Vidal

  Conspiracy, Analysts

  "Vidal salon" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.

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• Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Nsa, Eyebrows

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• Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Mean, Class

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Intellectuals and Socialism (ch. 12), 1967.

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