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“Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.”

Believe Artist Realizing Opinion Issues Theory Politician Concern West Conservative Campaigns Newspapers Russia Conspiracy Public Opinion Putin Adviser Conspiracy Theory Malicious

Author:Alexei Navalny

“My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.”

Ifs I Can Important Problem Theory Concern Connected Glad Manage Branches Contribution Particles Cosmology Gravitation

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.”

World Universe Literature Rooms Theory Concern Our World Privileged Observers Relativity Theories Of Relativity

Author:Nina Berberova

“Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.”

Theory Concern Discussion

Author:Mason Cooley

“Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.”

Way Art Done Knowing Clear Particular Theory Concern Perfection Performances Oneself Practicals Explanation Occupation Calculating Pertinent

Author:Gersonides

“The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness. The origin of the universe is what I do for a living, working on string theory. But I am also fascinated by consciousness.”

Two Ideas Universe Consciousness Theory Concern Strings Fascinated Puzzles String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.”

“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.”

“Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories”

Has Beens Made Example Theory Drama Gay Concern Golf Nine Taxation Lively Smallpox Gaudy

Book:Prejudices: Third Series

Source: Prejudices: Third Series

“The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province of economists. Internal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.”

Study Economic Theory Concern Organization Economist Provinces Specialists Administrative

Author:Oliver E. Williamson

“When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification.”

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away