“Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.” IfsGivingWellsMayValuesFiguresTheoryCapitalismHatredInsightOppressionBitterPlentyLabourSheepWitchcraftFlocksComplacentArsenic Book:Essay on Marxian Economics Source: Essay on Marxian Economics
“I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.” HelpingFiguresTheoryAppreciateHelp MeMechanicNewtonSkater Author:Michio Kaku
“Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.” IfsImaginationFiguresTheoryModels Author:Lord Kelvin
“Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.” OrderHeardFiguresTheoryMusician Author:George Russell
“I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.” PeopleWayWritingStepsFiguresBuildingSeriousTheoryManagementCategoriesCrucialScholarship Author:Clayton Christensen
“What we need to do, however, is figure out what our best available theories of the mind suggest about epistemological issues, while we recognise that we may need to change our views on these questions as new evidence comes in.” NeedsMindMayViewsIssuesFiguresTheoryEvidenceAvailableRecogniseNeed A Change Author:Hilary Kornblith
“The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.” PeopleYearsMovingUniverseThreeFatherStarsInterestingNumbersFiguresSonTheoryHolyShapesNotionGhostCyclesHistorianMysticalHoly GhostArthur Author:Marianne Williamson
“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
“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanDifferentFiguresTheoryTrumpRight NowMajorsHappeningsToolsElectionSignificantSystems Thinking Author:Morgan Parker
“I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.” LittlesSoulFatherIndividualEnergyFiguresTheoryTraditionMovedChaosPhysicsSparksCosmicQuantumQuantum PhysicsFather FigureChaos TheoryCosmic Energy Author:Bharati Mukherjee