“I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.” PeopleThinkingWayWould BeAmericaWorryTheoryWallGunResponseKneesSuspectsWay Of ThinkingJerk Author:Ethan Hawke
“Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.” UseActionTheoryVulnerableIsolationSuspectsInherentHistoricTheoreticalOrientationGimmicksWorthlessnessMimicry Book:Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice
“The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.” WayStillsSelfMatterPlayGamesProcessTheoryProveCleverOne WayConsistentSuspectsSurprisingQuantumShellsResortsHocus Pocus Book:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
“Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for friends. Part of me suspects that they wouldn't like me, or that I wouldn't like them, which would inevitably get in the way of the mission. None of the theory built around translation matters to me anyway: much of the process, I find, is intuitive.” WayLittlesMatterProcessTheoryBuiltMissionsLike MeFishingSuspectsInteractionTranslateColleaguesIntuitiveTranslations Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely