#theories

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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.


Stefan Banach


#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.


Andrew Coyle Bradley


#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.


Karl Popper


#alive #flawed #good #guess #kill

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.


Jack Kerouac


#bohemian #certain #elements #fault #found

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.


Stephen Cole Kleene


#about #because #belief #claim #going

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.


Georges Rouault


#both #canvas #discards #everything #forgets

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.


Agnes Smedley


#hall #holding #leading #little #marxist

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.


Leland Stanford


#creation #declared #delusive #direct #distribution

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.


Robert Sternberg


#evaluated #get #go #in other words #into

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.


Allen Tate


#been #cherished #detachment #gather #genetic