Top 1200 Systems Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

Think about the systems at McDonald's. It's a very mechanized world, where you take out a highly processed patty.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

The first visit I made to Australia was in 1996 when I was the prisons' minister and was looking at other countries' penal systems.

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will change.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

I've always had this theory that if you're good at something, you should do it.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.