“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
“I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.” IfsI CanWould BeTheoryStringsTheoristsString Theory Author:Brian Greene
“I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.” WholeTheoryObsessedConspiracyVeteranConspiracy TheoryTheoristsHarvey Author:Patti Davis
“Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.” SometimesScienceResultsNumbersTheoryMathematicsComplicatedPrimeTheoristsPrime Numbers Author:Saharon Shelah
“In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.” ThinkingMenLittlesHas BeensSelfGivenSocialProcessInterestViewsAttentionEconomicSubjectsMankindTheoryEconomicsImportanceRegardStructureSelfishOur SocietyPhenomenonSurprisingPhilanthropyIgnoredEconomistTheoreticalSelf InterestTheoristsEconomic Theory Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.” PeopleWayIdeasAbleCertainDifficultTalkingMovementTheoryReaderNormalCriticalNarrativeVisualsAttachmentAcademicEngagingNormal LifeTheorists Author:Dean Spade
“For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.” GovernmentAmericaLyingTheoryFindingsAnalysisConspiracyConspiracy TheoryTheoristsOnly In AmericaGovernment Lies Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender.” ThinkingWayImportantGoneTheoryImportant ThingsUniversityGenderAcademyTheorists Author:Judith Butler
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” RealityCultureLeadershipDifferencesPracticeTheoryComputerProgrammingFavouriteFunny InspirationalProgrammersQuantum MechanicsComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguagePractiseIsmsTheoristsQuantum TheoryComputer ProgrammersSoftware DevelopmentScience TechnologyTheory And PracticeSome InterestingProgramming FunnyComputer Systems Author:Yogi Berra