Sentences with phrase «grand theory»

It's not about grand theories in finance and economics.

It's tempting to believe that complex systems can be explained with a few grand theories.

... but as is the problem with grand theories (even when supported by a large body of empirical data)... it may feel like something is missing!

I love to tinker in the lab of my home office with grand theories of the human body and how to live a better life.

Pseudooides fossils have a segmented middle like the embryos of segmented animals, such as insects, inspiring grand theories on how complex segmented animals may have evolved.

To overcome these incompatible views, Einstein introduced another, even grander theory in which space and time are not empty but are instead like a fabric that can be curved and stretched.

«He postulates grand theories while minimising the role played by data... he described his approach..

In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.

This freely moving particle, predicted by many grand theories of the universe, is thought to carry a single quantum of magnetic «charge», rather as an electron carries a single unit of electric charge.

CINEPHILIA (Part One, Two, and Three) By Nico Baumbach Can movie love be reconciled with so - called Grand Theory?

So, Victor the Troll, do you have any other Grand Theories that yo wish to share with us?

Ultimately, Antifragile is less a business book than it is Taleb's attempt at a grand theory of everything, a sprawling, ruminative dissection of all aspects of life, seen through the lens of fragility, risk and volatility.

«The simpler statements seem more universal, more in testament to a greater truth or a grander theory,» Silver writes.

It's the strangest bird of the Stillman films, and if any readers have a grand theory of how to interpret that will exceed the capacity of our comments section, email Peter at Berry College, and he'll fwd your stuff to me.)

None of the grand theories that single out particular themes and expand them into the whole truth is adequate.

Like Einstein, Hawking then believed that a grand theory of the universe would allow humankind to see into the «mind of God.»

Even a Grand Theory of Everything will not be the last word in science and the need for representing the faith in synthesis with the knowledge of the day will always be with us.

This is not to say that the grand theory of Marxism has no appeal.

Our technocratic uses of reason seem far more plausible to most educated people today than Marxism's grand theories.

But you boys with your grand theories, shining a retrospective light and revealing nothing.

For his part, Stockman began to disparage the grand theory as a kind of convenient illusion — new rhetoric to cover old Republican doctrine.»

Physicists will never come to grips with the grand theories of the universe, Penrose holds, until they see past the blinding distractions of today's half - baked theories to the deepest layer of the reality in which we live.

Like Newton's theory before it, which was incompatible with special relativity and was not powerful enough to describe the universe, general relativity has shortcomings that point to a grander theory.

In Edelman's grand theory of the mind, consciousness is a biological phenomenon and the brain develops through a process similar to natural selection.

They've used that observation in a newly published paper that lays out a Grand Theory of what makes people tick at the office.

When Charles Darwin was working out his grand theory on the origin of species, he was perplexed by the fact that animals from ants to people form social groups in which most individuals work for the common good.

Special and general relativity, among the grandest theories of our time (rivaled only by quantum mechanics and Darwinian evolution), took years to gain wide acceptance and never received a Nobel Prize.

For that reason, and also because experimenters like to poke at the marble facades of grand theories, Einstein's ideas are being tested with increasing frequency these days and to extraordinary precision.

He knew as well as anyone that the quantum world could not be captured in his pretty pictures, so he grabbed at whatever he could in his search for the next, grander theory.

Robert Pool reports a «grand theory» of suicide (28 February, p 37), but his article rather misses the mark.

Barbara's Theory of Integral Nursing (2008) is considered a grand theory that presents the science and art of nursing.

But Creation, the story of Charles Darwin's struggle to bring his grand theory of evolutionary biology into being (survival of the fittest and all that), is one of those tepid, genteel biopics that's far too busy ennobling its hero to bother giving him any recklessly interesting personality traits.

Hitchens's determination that the magazine remain stingy with its trust, unbeholden to any grand theories or critical fads, made it hard for FILM COMMENT to match the immediate influence or prominence of Cahiers du cinéma, Sight & Sound, or Film Quarterly.

In a sprawling, slickly designed website, Landis presents a multi-part article (he calls it «a living document») discussing his grand theory of Carly Rae Jepsen's thematic concerns.

Tunnel vision sets in; every analysis, whatever the topic, becomes an occasion for the grand theory to appear.

In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west.

In these and other letters (which were donated to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art) Bess makes it clear that his paintings were only part of a grander theory, based on alchemy, the philosophy of Carl Jung, and the rituals of Australian aborigines, which proposed that becoming a hermaphrodite was the key to immortality.

He is discerning, and he can be critical, but he is not a man of narrow interests or grand theories.

These pictures, all 2014 oils, may not fit any grand theories on the evolution of contemporary art, but their skill is undeniable.

There is no linkage between FF CO2 emissions & SO2 emissions, a linkage you assume and without which your Grand Theory very rapidly splash - lands and gurgles round the U-bend.

Your Grand Theory seems to rest on the idea that FF - use produces CO2, a GHG which is warming the planet but that, in some bizarre balance, a commensurate quantity of SO2 aerosols must also be produced cooling the planet.