#theo

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#concept #how #human #human society #internationalism

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#constantly #course #state #theory #world

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#change #come #kinds #later #manage

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biological #grounding #include #knowledge #laws

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#advance #agricultural #basis #causation #darwin

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#devil #failure #god #long #man

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#background #began #gently #life #me

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore