Nathan Seiberg Quotes
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra -
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny -
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Umberto Eco -
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Flora Lewis -
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
Olga Kurylenko -
I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
Madi Diaz -
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson -
I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
Natasha Lyonne -
The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein -
Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.
Albert Einstein
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Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
Leonard Susskind -
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
Kip Thorne -
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.
Oscar Wilde -
Doing this well requires a deep knowledge of the data mixed with a goodly dose of economic theory and economic judgment, ... Greenspan is, of course, a master.
Ben Bernanke -
The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom -
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
C. S. Lewis
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
Jasper Fforde -
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.
Albert Einstein -
There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
William Whewell -
I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Nick Minchin -
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud -
Supersymmetry arises naturally in string theory.
Nathan Seiberg