Top 1200 Theoretical Physics Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common?

The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

The most fun is to inhabit the world where cartoon physics is king. And that just means that things move with kind of an energy and exaggeration and appeal that is different from what we see in our world. We're bound by, at least, Newton's Laws of physics here and in animation we're not. So, director's can be extremely eccentric, you can sculpt motion in animation in a way that you just can't do any other way. In any other performance medium.

I was not going to be an actor. I was an engineer in physics. That's what I did: I graduated with a physics degree, and I had become a little bit distressed that I'd have to work for somebody - anybody! And I thought, "I'm not going to make a mark on anything. If I can't express myself, then I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with this life." I think it was just one of those germs that said, "No, no, no, you've got to say things. You've got to tell people things. You've got to express your opinion in this life, because that's how you started."

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

Economics is a good degree to have but the subject is very theoretical at Cambridge and I found it frustrating that you can't apply a lot of the models to particular circumstances.

When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Since my work is theoretical, the financial needs are very little. Doing the research itself is the toughest challenge.

I read a lot of astronomy magazines, and go to a lot of astronomy sites, and physics sites. I love reading about quantum computation and quantum physics. I don't understand it all, but I love reading it over and over again so that I think I have some idea of what they're talking about.

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

The fact that the laws of physics don't change as if you move in time has physical implications that there's this thing called energy and energy is conserved, and the same thing - and the fact that the laws of physics don't change of you move back and forth in different directions in space implies that there is something called momentum and momentum is conserve and doesn't change as you evolve in time.

I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology.

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we are talking about, and all is chaos.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.