Quotes of: Economic-theory Keyword

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

Richard Dawkins

Jane Hawking: Your glasses are always dirty.

The Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking: I'm sorry. I did my best.

The Theory of Everything

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.

Bob Beauprez

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deli...

Xi Jinping

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe,...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent...

Michael Shermer

Education is the best economic policy there is.

Tony Blair

[The theory of universal gravitation] is not cast-iron. No theory is, and there is always room for improvement. Isn't that so? Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth. . . Well, that means all theories are subje...

Nightfall

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

Gut?” “General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.

Angels & Demons

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

Literary Theory: An Anthology

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Manfred Eigen

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

Dean Ornish

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

John McCarthy

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Small Is Beautiful: E. F. Schumacher, Appropriate Technology, Globalization, 1973 Oil Crisis, Neoclassical Economics, Simple Living, Buddhist Economics, Decentralization

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application ...

Max Weber

Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every...

Mrs. Dalloway