Top 244 Thesis Quotes & Sayings

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctual writer, and I don't plot shows out like, "This is my thesis and this is how I'm going to subtly sneak my thesis into this episode." I just approach it from, "We know these characters well, here are the situations that they're in, now how would they behave? What would the consequences be?" And it's always fun to see how people interpret that and dissect it afterward, and make me and the other writers seem probably smarter than we really are.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

I'm pretty sure Magic Mike' is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I'm going to have to see that.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

I mean, my students are texting me all the time. It could be 10 o'clock at night, 'Hey Dr. B., can you check my thesis statement?' You know, I'm in bed!

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.

It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).

The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections.

I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis... and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it.

We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.

My college senior thesis was going to be on the American private investigator.

Our basic thesis for bitcoin is that it is better than gold.

You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

I've been studying mutual funds since 1949, when I began researching my senior thesis at Princeton University.

My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

Sometimes I worry that people who read my fiction think that I am making some kind of thesis statement.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

My thesis was on kinetics studies with the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase. When that was finished, I was granted a British Council Fellowship to work under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon.

I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis.

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

I had done some work on index funds in my senior thesis at Princeton in 1951.

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

I don't have a gender thesis. I am truly optimizing for the right person for the task, whether that means running a company or working on my team.