#theo

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#being #irrelevant #may #model #only

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#actually #articles #behind #book #checked

...a useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature of much physics - he referred to black holes as 'putative' only, to the search for theories of everything as 'the embodiment of a belief, even a hope' and stated that the reason why the quantum gravity project is 'becalmed' right now is because 'the problem to be solved is not yet fully understood' and that the idea that the universe began with a Big Bang 'will be found to be false'. ↗

— Peter Watson

#theory-of-everything #beauty

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#feasible #financially #impossibility #may #technically

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. ↗

— John Frame

#although #among #been #churches #consciences

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#characteristics #evolution #humans #inconsistent #mental

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#chaos #creation #divine-will #omnipotence #theology

Theo named his son Theology. But his son changed it to The O to honor his dad, Orafoura. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#honor #orafoura #theology #change

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.' page 21 ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#games-theory #change