“When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.” WholeScienceStudyTeacherAdviceCenturyExampleDegreesPerfectionPhysicsDustBubblesParticlesTheoreticalGeometrySecuredJollyMaturedMunichTheoretical Physics Author:Max Planck
“An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.” ImportantAmericaUnderstandingStudySubjectsKeysResponseAccomplishPracticalsRisingContributionTidesRepresentativesCommerceTheoreticalNeglectedSystematicImportant Contributions Author:Mark Noll
“General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.” WorldDoeRealUseBodyLyingNamesLevelsSituationStudyBuildingTheoryDisciplinePureModelsConnectionsMathematicsReal WorldConstructionConcreteOrganizeTheoreticalThinkableSystems Theory Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.” StudyStudentsCollegeBecomingMathematicsPhysicsPhysicistTheoreticalYaleCollege Students Author:James Rothman
“Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.” LittlesTwoStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesStudyFindingsArgumentDifficultyDepthInsightPermanentImmigrantsInterpretationTerritoryOutsidersImpressedTheoreticalAssimilationMeccaUnchartedUncharted Territory Author:Robert Wuthnow
“I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.” IfsWorldMayStudyDoubtFieldsProduceOne DayEverydayShakesEveryday LifeTheoretical Book:Tales from the White Hart Source: Tales from the White Hart
“Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.” GivingHumansMayLawPrinciplesStudyMaterialsSymbolsAnalysisDepartmentExecutivesManipulationPaceEnginesRepresentativesTheoretical Author:Ada Lovelace