#theo

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ↗

#else #everything #explained #mathematical #perceived

Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält. ↗

— Juli Zeh

#game-theory #philosophy #religion #religion

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#dedication #economic #economics #equilibrium #general

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#became #berkeley #economic #interests #main

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#behavior #only #rational #reactive #reflex

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#correct #establishment #explanation #former #hypothesis

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

#growing #growing up #hard #harmony #i

Theology is unnecessary. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#unnecessary

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

— Thomas Huxley

#beautiful #common #common sense #fact #killed

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ↗