- Empirically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theory Quotes
Where reasoning meets belief.
These quotes treat theory as a way of making sense of uncertainty, from faith in a fair trial to physicists tracing statistical patterns across many experiments. Readers interested in applied ideas may also like the Economic collection.
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- Economic Theory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
- Entropy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth theory did not begin with my articles of 1956 and 1957, and it certainly did not end there. Maybe it began with 'The Wealth of Nations'; and probably even Adam Smith had predecessors.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
- Funeral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020