Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.
So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
There had never been a Class A1 event; it had always been a purely theoretical designation. Until now.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
...and analysis proved to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
