Quotes of: String-theory Keyword

Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum. [he checks the goblet, then tries again] Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, harp string hum... Harry: What's Seamus trying to do to that glass of water? Ron: Turn it to rum. Actu...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to unders...

Social Theory and Social Structure

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have th...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.

A 'Final Theory' of God

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Set Theory and Its Logic

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Kary Mullis

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

James Tobin

The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

Clayton Christensen

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Martin H. Fischer

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Catharine MacKinnon

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf

I can fish from a stick and a string.

Giancarlo Esposito

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Die Kunst des Rezensierens besteht nicht zuletzt darin, selbst über langweilige Bücher fesselnd zu schreiben.

Literaturkritik. Geschichte – Theorie – Praxis

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Social Theory and Social Structure

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

The Theory of Clouds

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Topics in the Theory of Numbers

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

A Theory of Justice