#theoretical

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biological #grounding #include #knowledge #laws

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#figures #greatest #here #honors #humble

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#account #akin #between #continuity #data

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

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#between #diplomatic #discussion #every #every nation

To be worshiped is not freedom. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#freedom

...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference. ↗

— Shulamith Firestone

#love

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture. ↗

— 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