“This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.” WayLoveTodayActionDesireLove YouParticularTheoryReflectionUniversalRemainsShoesLocalsBotherThemePlotDelicateUnclesNephewBoisterous Author:Glen Duncan
“It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.” WholeMightTheoryUniversalLeavingEmpiresGlobesBarbariansInvaders Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.” MayDoeFormLawSpecialTheorySolutionsEssenceUniversalBasesMethodMathematicalReasoningProbabilityAssuredUniversal Laws Book:Collected Logical Works Source: Collected Logical Works
“Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.” KnowsEnoughYoungSexTheoryUniversalGuiltMalesMigraine Book:Redback Source: Redback
“The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.” IfsTheoryGoes OnUniversalInstrumentsPiano Author:Eddie Van Halen
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.” PeopleIfsWayMovingArtistCultureGoalAcceptingSuccessfulPaintingTheoryTruth IsAspectScientistUniversalMusicalSomedayCompositionReplacedLiteralUniversal TruthCulture ChangeSociety And CultureMusical Composition Author:Daniel Levitin
“Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve because and to the extent that it is provisional, hypothetical, when it looks for disconfirmation in the particular rather than final proof as a universal.” WorldNeedsLooksOrderUnderstandingNaturalBuildingParticularTheoryCapacityLogicUniversalFinalsProofClarityNatural WorldHypothetical Author:Talal Asad
“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.” TurnsGrowsHalfLibertyDemocracyProduceTheoryBirthMassUniversalEncouragementSlaveryRateWitSecureAssuranceDeliberateSuffrageIgnobleUniversal SuffrageBirth RatePopular Education Author:H. L. Mencken
“Someone asked me very recently why I have 8 million views on TED - "your work resonates, what are you doing?" What I think my contribution is, what I do well, is I name experiences that are very universal that no one really talks about. That's the researcher in me; that's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have. That's the researcher part.” PeopleThinkingWellsNamesViewsMillionsTheoryConceptsUniversalContributionGroundedResearchers Author:Brené Brown