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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.


Edith Hamilton


#facts #go #human #human nature #nature

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.


David Hilbert


#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.


Johan Huizinga


#application #critical #demands #judgment #looks

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.


Emile M. Cioran


#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.


Michael Cunningham


#i #love #marriage #theories #useful

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.


David Deutsch


#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.


Pranab Mukherjee


#aspirations #bottom #dictionary #erased #india

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.


Robert Nozick


#black holes #capable #cosmology #evolutionary #formulates

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

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.


Lucy Powell


#events #fast #happening #historians #i






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