“Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.” IfsBeliefHistoryPowerLearningTheoryEconomicsThirdsDetermineAlternativesNothing NewSaying Nothing Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.” MayFactsHistoryTheoryDenyFavorsAccommodate Author:Agnes Repplier
“... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.” GivingMayLittlesSeemsSchoolUnderstandingNaturalViewsHistoryStrangeTheoryIntellectualMathematicsPassionateDelightMathematicalContemplationSympathetic Book:History of Western Philosophy Source: History of Western Philosophy
“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?” YearsRealityEarthScienceThreePoliticsNaturePartyHistoryFourGenerationsTheoryProveClimateBillionsIdeologyTeaFree SpeechHurricanesTea Party Author:Rand Paul
“The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.” DoeImportantAgeThreeHistoryMankindTheoryRevolutionTendenciesCombinationBroadsLoftyRisenOffenceFrench RevolutionVantage PointTheory Of Knowledge Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel