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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.
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.
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.
In theoretical physics, one can, in principle, work from anyplace as long as one has a computer and Internet connection. So I do not find any disadvantage of being in Allahabad.
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan.
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
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.
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable
three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.
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.
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.
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.
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
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
Since my work is theoretical, the financial needs are very little. Doing the research itself is the toughest challenge.
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
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.
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
Philosophy teaches us to look at the world again. It brings out at a theoretical level what all plain, common, ordinary people, in a sense, know already.
The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.
When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world
The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.
I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
That is not even wrong.
