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• Empecé en física nuclear. Pero después de sensibilizarme con las implicaciones medioambientales y sanitarias del sistema nuclear -me estaban formando para ser la primera mujer en el reactor reproductor rápido de la India (y estaba en él cuando se puso crítico por primera vez)- no me sentí cómoda con él. Así que me dediqué a la física teórica.

  Vandana Shiva

  Theoretical Physics, Environmental, India

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Thinking, Color, Identity

  Fuente: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Beautiful, Reality, Trying

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Roots, Discipline, Tree

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Philosophical, Discipline, Roles

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Vacuums, American Universities

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

  Emma Forrest

  Believe, Love You, Sadness

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• La enfermedad mental, por supuesto, no es literalmente una "cosa" -o un objeto físico- y, por tanto, sólo puede "existir" del mismo modo en que existen otros conceptos teóricos.

  Thomas Szasz

  Bipolar, Camino, Enfermedad mental

  "The Myth of Mental Illness" por Thomas Szasz en "American Psycholigist", Volumen 15 (pp. 113-118), psychclassics.yorku.ca. 1960.

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• I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Hermosa, Hija, Madre

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• Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Long, Psychology, Trying

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

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• Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Turkeys, Why Not

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.139, Bantam

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• Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Views, Ministry

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• Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

  Karl Marx

  July, Practice, Connections

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• I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Should Have, Quality, Shapes

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• Debo hacer hincapié en esto, para mantener a raya a los multiculturalistas bienintencionados pero equivocados: las entidades teóricas en las que francamente creen estas gentes tribales -los dioses y otros espíritus- no existen. Esa gente está equivocada, y usted lo sabe tan bien como yo. Es posible que personas muy inteligentes tengan una teoría muy útil pero equivocada, y no tenemos que fingir lo contrario para mostrar respeto por esas personas y sus costumbres.

  Daniel Dennett

  Creer, Inteligente, Orden

  Daniel C. Dennett (2006). "Rompiendo el hechizo: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon", p.401, Penguin

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• He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

  Zadie Smith

  Rose, Political, Construction

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

  Michel Foucault

  Alarms, Done, Levels

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.5, Cornell University Press

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• Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Order, Law, Progress

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.5, Verso

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• Uno de los objetivos de la filosofía es librar batallas teóricas. Por eso podemos decir que toda tesis es siempre, por su propia naturaleza, una antítesis. Una tesis sólo se plantea en oposición a otra tesis, o en defensa de una nueva.

  Louis Althusser

  Philosophy, Goal, Battle

  Louis Althusser, François Matheron, Olivier Corpet (2006). “Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87”, p.268, Verso

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• The kissed surprised him because it had been so long since he'd kissed anyone but Elspeth. It surprised Valentina because she had hardly ever kissed anyone that way - to her, kissing had always been more theoretical than physical. Afterwards she stood with her eyes closed, lips parted, face tilted. Robert thought, She's going to break my heart and I'm going to let her.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Eye, Heart, Kissing

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• En la mística, el conocimiento no puede separarse de una determinada forma de vida que se convierte en su manifestación viva. Adquirir un conocimiento místico significa sufrir una transformación; incluso podría decirse que el conocimiento es la transformación. El conocimiento científico, en cambio, puede quedarse a menudo en lo abstracto y teórico. Así, la mayoría de los físicos actuales no parecen darse cuenta de las implicaciones filosóficas, culturales y espirituales de sus teorías.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Espiritual, Filosófico, Medio

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• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). "LA ABOLICIÓN DEL HOMBRE"

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• The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

  Albert Camus

  Spirit, Problem, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.20, Vintage

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• Evidentemente, no hay que renunciar a ser un académico, retirarse de la investigación rigurosa o renunciar a la importancia de la especialización para abordar las grandes cuestiones sociales. No creo que se renuncie al rigor teórico por escribir de forma que se aborden las principales preocupaciones sociales y, al mismo tiempo, se sea accesible a un público general más amplio e informado.

  Henry Giroux

  Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

  "La enseñanza superior bajo ataque". Entrevista con C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. 22 de abril de 2011.

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• La teoría del pulmón como glándula ha justificado su existencia y ha prestado un excelente servicio al poner de manifiesto hechos que sobrevivirán a cualquier construcción teórica que se haya hecho o pueda hacerse en el futuro sobre ellos.

  August Krogh

  Science, May, Facts

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