#theory

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hours #i #never #nine-to-five #theory

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#broad #complete #discover #discussion #everyone

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#i #strongly #theory #very

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. ↗

— David Hilbert

#branches #construction #developed #disclosed #does

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#element #happiness #indestructible #perfect #possibility

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#alone #annihilation #any #believing #belongs

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#economic #economic theory #far #focused #future

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#blind #intellectual #mere #play #theory

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. ↗

— Felix Klein

#applications #archimedes #equal #equal measure #greatest