Quotes of: Theories Keyword

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed....

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as ‘natural’ but which, in the very moment of conveying a meaning, communicates something of its own relative, arti...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

The myth that if you don't start early, you might as well not start, tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The music-making world that young people confront reminds me a lot of the world of school sports. After a lot of weeding out, in the end you'...

Learning All The Time

In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concepts, including time, causation, morality, and the mind, are all conceptualized by multiple metaphors, sometimes as many as two dozen. What each philosop...

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

These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas. Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor dec...

Paul Krugman

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

The Color of Magic

Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.

The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature

You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.

Client Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Culture and Value

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

The Dispossessed

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

Fahrenheit 451

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

How to Build a House

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go aw...

Leonard Susskind

Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?

Rob Lowe

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theo...

Jay Roach

My theory is you shouldn't apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.

22 Shelters: Lessons From Letters