“I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.” TwoDifferentLightUsedSpeakCasesMaterialsTheoryProveConnectionsDifficultyExperimentsBeing TrueAgentsChiefsReasonableQuartersElectricGlobesCarbonExaggerationElectric LightBamboo Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.” KnowsLooksMadeFallCenturyTheoryBandAngelFemaleOrganizationFalling In LoveNotionAgentsHistorianHeelsPositivelyCharlieNineteenth CenturyHumdrumHead Over HeelsCarnationsCharlie's Angels Book:The Deception of the Emerald Ring Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring
“Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object” DifferentSelfSocialActingEnvironmentObjectsTheoryPerspectiveOneselfAgentsRejectsConceptionShiftingTransformingCognitiveSelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.” PeopleTryingMightValuesCommunityAttentionFiguresTheoryDiversityPhilosopherAgentsPay AttentionLogicalImplications Author:Dale Jamieson