#theoretical

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#archetypes #changed #completely #decades #even

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. ↗

— Ira Glass

#evidence #half-million #hear #i #know

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#alleged #beyond #first #i #important

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

#back #doing #everything #five #hurt

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#derived #earthquake #energy #introduces #quantity

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#church #conclusion #contribution #elements #hostile

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#been #does #facts #logically #merely

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#civilised #even #great #importance #matter