Top 1200 Theory Of Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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.

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

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

Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

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

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.

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

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

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

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

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.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

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?

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

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.

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

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

Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.

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.

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.

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.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.