Value Theory Quotes

#1. An organizational norm that says, "We value practice over theory but we value theory-informed practice over ad-hoc practice" helps to restore some respect for theory. We

Sriram Narayan

#2. No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

Mark Pagel

#3. To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Donna Freitas

#4. QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.

Alexandra Robbins

#5. Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.

David Amerland

#6. Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

Sir John Richard Hicks

#8. I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well ... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.

Paul Jewell

#10. The Theory of Surplus Value means that anytime you hire someone, you are exploiting him. If you pay someone to fix your automobile, he has the right, by virtue of being your mechanic, to steal your car.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

Sonia Sotomayor

#12. The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants. As long as there is a greater fool around the corner willing to pay a higher price, the value will continue to rise,

Ashwin Sanghi

#13. Oliver used to have a theory he called Love, etc.: in other words the world divides into people for whom love is everything and the rest of life is a mere 'etc.,' and people who don't value love enough and find the most exciting part of life is the 'etc.

Julian Barnes

#14. Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

Yanis Varoufakis

#15. It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with us for as long as there's injustice, and that doesn't seem to be in short supply.

James C. Scott

#16. The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

Albert Einstein

#17. I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information.

Pierre Omidyar

#18. In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered.

Jane Smiley

#19. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder.

Carl Sagan

#20. The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.

Ludwig Von Mises

#21. There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

Robert Jastrow

#22. No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

#23. Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

Ken Follett

#24. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

Ludwig Von Mises

#25. I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Frederick Douglass

#26. This kind of mixing of ingredients happens all the time at fast-food places ... You know when you order french fries and there's a rogue onion ring at the bottom. You know, at first you're alarmed but you eat it. It all comes from the same place! You just have to go for it.

Chelsea Handler

#27. A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.

Maurice Allais

#28. Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

#30. Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

Didier Sornette

#31. There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Elizabeth Joan Smith

#32. Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.

Alois Podhajsky

#33. The higher mental activities are pretty tough and resilient, but it is a devastating experience if the drive does stop. Some people lose it in their forties and can only stop. In England they are a source of Vice-Chancellors.

John Edensor Littlewood

#34. For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Jenny Diski

#35. 'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets.

Michaela Watkins

#36. This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.

Patrick Geddes

#37. If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes.

Olga Goa

#38. I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Dean

#39. She had made reason and common sense her gods.
She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

Mary Balogh

#40. In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Robert Metcalfe