Standard Theory Quotes

#1. The standard theory may survive as a part of the ultimate theory, or it may turn out to be fundamentally wrong. In either case, it will have been an important way-station, and the next theory will have to be better.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#2. The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Francis Beaumont

#3. We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

Dan Ariely

#4. We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Jeremy Grantham

#5. Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#6. One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

Richard Allen Epstein

#7. Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions.

Lisa Randall

#8. Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. Just state the facts.

Austin Kleon

#9. Go away and bleed to death,' said his onetime saviour sharply. 'On behalf of the female sex I feel I may cheer every lesion.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

Michael Sandel

#11. Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.

Leon M. Lederman

#12. However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.

The Worldwatch Institute

#13. Big cows,"
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"lumps of meat"
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. His eyes widened. "Give me milk"
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"warm and sweet"
thump.

Julianne Donaldson

#14. It's like if one part of my life goes well, then another has to go off the rails

Michelle Dalton

#15. Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.

Ruskin Bond

#16. The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

Toshihiko Fukui

#17. The Russians are a very sentimental people.

Mike Jackson