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“The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.”

“I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Might Can Do Theory Scientist Accounts Philosopher Data Hypothesis Theoretical Continuity

Author:Robert Nozick

“A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.”

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.”

Ideas Science Belief Change Dark Evolution Experiments Steady Breakthrough Theoretical Dark Times

Author:Steven Weinberg

“I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’”

Happens Language Space Rooms Seeing Objects Building Creating Inspired Sculpture Theoretical

Author:Daniel Lopatin

“The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.”

Science Universe Stuff Space Theory Empty Invention Particles Theoretical Vacuums Newton Comeback Discarded Clerks Empty Space Isaac Maxwell

Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?

“The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.”

Economic Philosopher Psychological Theoretical

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.”

Mean Problem Ability Difficulty Solve Theoretical Insufficient Present Time Computation

Author:Howard Aiken

“The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.”

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.”

Individual Grows Information Amount Command Dependent Theoretical

Book:Memory

Source: Memory

“But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.”

Would Be Science Wealth Ability Education Quality Leader Regard Proof Characteristics Mistaken Theoretical

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“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.”

World Real Force Lines Opinion Progress Civilization Resistance Public Opinion Theoretical

Book:Addresses on International Subjects

Source: Addresses on International Subjects

“The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.”

Way Firsts Lasts Sides Deals Principles Democrat Extremes Cant Theoretical Visionaries Converses

Author:James F. Cooper

“A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.”

Doe Has Beens States Facts Relation Theoretical

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.”

My Own Groups Approach Scientist Various Frontiers Theoretical

Book:Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui

Source: Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui

“After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong.”

Young Science Reading Paper Scientist Theoretical Shaking

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.”

Knows Doe Spiritual Life Is Imagination Differences Practice Listening Hunger Hungry Doctrine Self Realization Realization Theoretical Starvation

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

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