Citas teóricas

• He intentado leer a filósofos de todas las épocas y he encontrado muchas ideas esclarecedoras, pero ningún progreso constante hacia un conocimiento y una comprensión más profundos. La ciencia, sin embargo, me da la sensación de un progreso constante: Estoy convencido de que la física teórica es auténtica filosofía. Ha revolucionado conceptos fundamentales, por ejemplo, sobre el espacio y el tiempo (relatividad), sobre la causalidad (teoría cuántica) y sobre la sustancia y la materia (atomística), y nos ha enseñado nuevos métodos de pensamiento (complementariedad) aplicables mucho más allá de la física.

  Max Born

  Filosofía, Conocimiento, Ciencia

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• Si los hechos no se ajustan a la teoría, cambia los hechos.

  Albert Einstein

  Amor, Inspiración, Vida

  Albert Einstein (2010). "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein", p.483, Princeton University Press

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• The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

  Paul Dirac

  Theoretical Physics, Unnecessary, Mechanic

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• Ahora estoy convencido de que la física teórica es en realidad filosofía.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, Convinced

  "Schrodinger : Life and Thought" by Walter J. Moore, (p. 1), 1992.

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• Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

  Josh Kaufman

  School, Majority, Useless

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• Los métodos de la física teórica deberían ser aplicables a todas aquellas ramas del pensamiento en las que los rasgos esenciales son expresables con números.

  Paul Dirac

  Numbers, Theoretical Physics, Essentials

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• The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

  Erich Fromm

  Science, Successful, Men

  1955 The Sane Society.

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• The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

  James F. Cooper

  Principles, Visionaries, Way

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Libro de James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

  John Coltrane

  Thinking, Bird, Musical

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• Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hangover, Uprising, Levels

  The Guardian, 27 de octubre de 1992.

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• When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.

  Max Planck

  Teacher, Science, Dust

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• There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

  Stephen Hawking

  Winning, Differences, Religion

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" por Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. 7 de junio de 2010.

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• La liberación de energía atómica no ha creado un nuevo problema. Simplemente ha hecho más urgente la necesidad de resolver uno ya existente.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• La comprensión teórica del mundo, que es el objetivo de la filosofía, no es una cuestión de gran importancia práctica para los animales, ni para los salvajes, ni siquiera para la mayoría de los hombres civilizados.

  Bertrand Russell

  Filosofía, Hombre, Animal

  Bertrand Russell (2016). "Misticismo y lógica", p.28, Bertrand Russell

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• Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

  Vivian Mercier

  Play, Waiting, Firsts

  "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

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• It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

  R. B. Braithwaite

  Years, Amusement, Fifty

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• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Knowledge, Views, Simplicity

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• Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Different, Six, Physics

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.161, Princeton University Press

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• En teoría, se puede argumentar que siglos de esclavitud, Jim Crow y discriminación son la causa principal de todas esas diferencias. Que se trata de injusticias cometidas contra la comunidad negra en su conjunto, y contra las familias negras en particular, y que, para cerrar esa brecha, la sociedad tiene la obligación moral de hacer una inversión grande y agresiva, aunque no sea en forma de cheques individuales de reparación, sino en forma de un Plan Marshall, para cerrar esas brechas. Es fácil esgrimir ese argumento teórico.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Order, Community

  Fuente: www.theatlantic.com

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• We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Errors, Objectifying, Action

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Ideas, Stories, Lessons

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• Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.

  Catherine Wilson

  Snow, Common Sense, Water

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Air, Umpires, Enemy

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). "MATADERO-CINCO"

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

  Catherine Wilson

  Slavery, Common, Claims

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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