Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is.
Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.
If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory.
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. . . . The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.
The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought. . . will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing that no longer fragments the observer from what's observed; a new capacity for stillness that no longer fragments who we really are from what's emerging; and a new capacity for creating alternative realities that no longer fragments the wisdom of the head, heart and hand.
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful laterand vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.
I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of it when I started at a rather tender age; I was simply awed by dinosaurs. I thought paleontologists spent their lives digging up bones and putting them together, never venturing beyond the momentous issue of what connects to what. Then I discovered evolutionary theory. Ever since then, the duality of natural history-richness in particularities and potential union in underlying explanation-has propelled me.
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts