Theory Quotes - page 5

There is no hope, as far as I can see, of pushing the postulates of economic theory back to a set of irreducible axioms. (Richard Stone)
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic. View quote
Franklin Pierce
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. View quote
Wilhelm Dilthey
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. View quote
George Stigler
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. View quote
Christopher McDougall
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. View quote
Harold Geneen
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. View quote
Asa Gray
My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders. View quote
Ella Baker
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. (Gerrit Smith)
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. View quote
Ian Hart
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. View quote
Mark Russell
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding. View quote
Martin Fleischmann
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. View quote
Sergio Aragones
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. View quote
Charles Darwin
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
A theory must be tempered with reality. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience. View quote
Maurice Allais
Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure. View quote
Gordon Brown
The method of successive approximations is often applied to proving existence of solutions to various classes of functional equations; moreover, the proof of convergence of these approximations leans on the fact that the equation under study may be majorised by another equation of a simple kind. Similar proofs may be encountered in the theory of infinitely many simultaneous linear equations and in the theory of integral and differential equations. Consideration of semiordered spaces and operations between them enables us to easily develop a complete theory of such functional equations in abstract form. View quote
Leonid Kantorovich
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto