Theoretic Quotes

#1. This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte

#3. The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

John Ruskin

#4. The "trick" is to develop formal mathematical definitions that have known graph theoretic properties, and also capture important intuitive and theoretical aspects of cohesive subgroups.

Katherine Faust

#5. Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty ... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Mercy Otis Warren

#6. Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

George Santayana

#7. Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#9. One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.

John Harsanyi

#10. It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation ... that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

John Archibald Wheeler

#11. The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

Nassau William Senior

#12. The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!

Witold Gombrowicz

#13. Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#14. So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

Herman Melville

#15. At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government ... But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

James Madison

#16. Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#17. Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#18. Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Vitruvius

#19. I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#20. The forces of nature aren't arbitrarily selected in some way by
chance or design, they are simply the possible directions of time.

Gevin Giorbran

#21. Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Ramana Maharshi

#23. I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

Andre Holland

#24. The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state ... I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

Avigdor Lieberman

#25. A book that is written for the quirky, mischievous, and decidedly irreverent-minded modern reader, Confessions from the Comments Section will appeal to anyone who enjoys a clever, no-holds-barred roast of our contemporary cultural chaos.

Jonathan Kieran

#26. I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.

John Davidson

#27. To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight, Sam saw a vast shape crash out of the trees and come careering down the slope.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

Stephen Covey

#29. The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths.

Carl Sagan