#theoretical

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#changes #completely #development #except #factual

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#changes #development #factual #forward #hand

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#capacity #highest #man #then #theoretical

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#love

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#men

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. ↗

— Rudolf Hilferding

#bourgeois #economics #engages #field #fights

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#literature #possible #sf #theoretically

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #big #daughters #every #got

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#i #resonance #side #stochastic #theoretical