“I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.” PeopleCareInterestingTheoryBattlePercentAgreeRageTinyRadicalMost InterestingTheorists Author:John Waters
“The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.” LongProcessViewsTheoryStandardsOrdinaryClaimsTraditionalRecognitionRadicalPlanesResolveMisunderstoodSequenceEquilibriumLife SpanSudden ChangeBeddingGeological TimeSpeciation Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.” JesusChristAcceptingTheoryHistoricalMythRadicalDenialDutchHistorical Jesus Author:Robert M. Price
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.” MayArtEarthFormOpinionModernTheoryInnovationOriginalsMajorityRoundsRadicalFlatsAirplaneHostileCablesAutomobileModernismModern ArtProtestantismMajority Opinion Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.” PeopleBelieveMadeWholeIndividualBlackTermPowerfulLeaderCuttingWrittenFeminismMovementParticularColorTheoryEdgesFeministMade ItRadicalBlack PeopleBlack WomenMilitantCutting EdgeFeminist Theory Author:Bell Hooks
“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsFactsWould BeChangeFourChangedTheoryBecomingHundredConstantRadicalNow And ThenBecoming MoreReconstructionScientific TheoryGravitation Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidEnoughWould BeRunningNumbersBuildingTheoryIndustryLuckyYears AgoOriginalsTrackExpectedRadicalFirmSchemesFoundersLapDistinguishedClassificationRadical ChangeIncremental Change Author:Clayton Christensen