If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.
Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
The new theory, of course, always subsumes more effects than the old. But the remarkable thing is that when it is discovered, it also wholly changes our conception of how the world works.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.