#theory

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ↗

— James Newman

#compares #does #doing #else #groups

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#fact #failing #him #his #implicit

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#considerations #empirically #even #everyday #everyday life

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#answer #formulates #know #needed #only

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#flesh #go #large #living #permanent

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#answer #any #ask #behind #everyone

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#does #earth #ground #life #live

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#audience #call #domino #go #i

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beautiful #common #common sense #fact #killed