Theory Quotes
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It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
Albert Einstein
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According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
Wilhelm Wien
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Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
Gary Lachman
Blondie
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I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
James Bryant Conant
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I started in 1921 to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on the popular promenade Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.
Bertil Ohlin
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The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
Albert Einstein
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!
Albert Einstein
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
Albert Einstein
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You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
Charles Haughey
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The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom
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Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.
Nolan Bushnell
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion
e. e. cummings
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Kepler had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.
Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
Anne Carson
