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“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought”

Source: A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911

“I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.”

Theory Everyday Features Strings Everyday Life String Theory Mesh

Author:Brian Greene

“With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.”

Knows Theory Fundamentals Features Characteristics Fascinating Supplies Landmarks Idiosyncrasies

Book:Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

Source: Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity

“One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.”

Kind Reality Form Theory Needed Essentials Commitment Deeper Features Abstract Wholeness Unbroken

Book:Wholeness and the Implicate Order

Source: Wholeness and the Implicate Order

“The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.”

Source: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.”

Said Hard Difficult Seeing Trouble Theory Expectations Direct Features Imposing

Author:Michael Crichton