“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."” IfsMenWorldShouldBelieveStillsEarthFatherProcessSidesWaterChurchViewsCasesFailingLandCenturyTheoryShapesProveMassOppositesSaintFamiliarReasoningCoveredFifthAvoidedEndorsementsAugustineChurch Fathers Author:Saint Augustine
“It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.” VoiceTheoryPersonalityShapesSurroundings Author:K. D. Lang
“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .” LiteratureSocialAnswersDealsAttentionPracticeObjectsTheoryNeededShapesCriticismGenreAestheticBentSystematicAnatomyLiterary TheoryLiterary Genre Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.” FactsEarthNumbersSupportAtheismAcceptanceTheoryDependsEvolutionShapesEvidenceNotionProofBranchesFlatsStatureBiological Science Author:Peter Medawar
“In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.” PeopleMenDoeCareCommonMoralPrinciplesPracticeTheoryShapesAncientOfficialsRisingInner LifeAncient TimesRising Up Author:African Spir
“The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron.” MindFirstsIdeasMatterRealityTodayFormEnergySpaceIdentityTheoryShapesScientistAgreeMereIncludingAncientIntuitionDestroyedTemporaryTime And SpacePhysicistRelativityElectronsTheories Of Relativity Book:Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982
“The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.” DifferentHelpingTheoryShapesFinancialAcceptedEquilibriumDiscountsFinancial Markets Author:George Soros
“It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!” PeopleMenWorldGivingEnoughYoungUniverseBehindsBrainTheoryFoolShapesGive MeSakeStupidityYoung ManScreamPillsJarsForlornInsensibleIncongruity Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.” StrongTheoryShapesChaosVery StrongIntersectionsFractalsChaos Theory Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“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
“Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then you do know whether or not you see a barn. You have "animal" knowledge, says my virtue theory, through the first-order aptness of your judgment.” IfsKnowsFirstsRealOrderAnimalViewsVirtueTheoryShapesJudgmentSunlightBarns Author:Ernest Sosa
“In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.” KnowsGivingUseEyeVisionObjectsColorTheoryExerciseShapesStructureVicesAccessDataEtcFacultyNervesRelevantArrivingReliabilityConesSpecificsCircularity Author:Ernest Sosa