Top 1200 Systems Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.

For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

I think that there is something that happens, a phenomenon that happens around a conspiracy theory, where if you believe in a conspiracy theory, then every critique of that theory is simply more proof that the conspiracy exists. And I think that that's something that goes on in the person of Donald Trump.

I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.