Sentences with phrase «than the theory of»

Both are theories and so by taking a stance that «science», i.e. the Big Bang was more believable because of your theory which is no more provable than the theory of a God was hypocritical, something you claim people who believe in God are.

This may be granted at once, but then the point has to be made that the literary relationships between the texts of the synoptic gospels are more complex than any theory of direct relationship imagines.

But, as Popper says, «a theory of the non-existence of consciousness can not be taken any more seriously than a theory of the non-existence of matter.»

The theory of evolution is no more lacking in evidence and research than the theory of gravity.

Bruckstein's theorem should be seen as a contribution to the mathematics of pursuit, motivated by ant trails, rather than a theory of ant behaviour.

This problem could be resolved if, for example, the core of the Sun were 10 per cent cooler than the theory of the solar interior requires, or if on the way from the core of the Sun to the Earth solar neutrinos were «altered» in such a way as to make two - thirds undetectable.

All are independent of universities, and they share an emphasis on the mechanics of lesson delivery and classroom management rather than theories of education, research or subject - matter expertise.

However, there is more to training than using just these tools, and there is more to training any animal than the theory of operant conditioning or the practice of using clickers.

There are countless examples down through history of theories that were rejected time and time again by the established scientists, only to later be shown to provide a better explanation of observations than the theories of established scientists.

The practice of law is often quite different than the theory of it.

Not exact matches

One business for which this entire discussion is more than theory is Dymax of Wamego, Kansas.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

For more than a year, Chuck Jeannes, CEO of Vancouver - based Goldcorp — the world's largest gold miner by market value — has posited his «peak gold supply» theory.

Last year, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets concluded that a single episode of The Big Bang Theory was more valuable to advertisers than an entire week's worth of viewing on YouTube.

There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Or you could think of it as a version of the greater fool theory — you want to be sure there's at least one bigger sucker than you willing to buy your goodies when you finally get over your growing greed and decide that it's time to go.

«It makes sense to point to an increase in the number of travelers as one likely reason, but other than that, we have no theories.»

This notion was studied extensively by Eliyahu Goldratt, an Israeli physicist turned management guru who defined the Theory of Constraints, which can be summed up by the ancient adage that no chain is stronger than its weakest link.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

The theory of the Hedonic Treadmill applies and when the negative feelings came forth, just as the theory suggests, it was felt times two because, as humans, we always feel loss more than we feel gain.

In essence and in theory, the human brain is capable of solving and computing problems much quicker than a computer.»

More than 60 % of the 117 CEOs agreed with the theory.

My theory is that it is more than just a fear of missing out.

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

I know that using flying books, misbehaving watches, and binary dust patterns are much more dramatic means of communication, but explaining a completely new unified theory of gravitational force would be much easier with equations and diagrams than with a seemingly random set of binary data.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

A major question is how plausible its economists» estimates are on key parts of its theory: how many of company A's customers would drop their cable subscription without Turner's networks, how many would switch to DirectTV (rather than just cutting the cord), and how profitable would the new customers be.

Rather than leading an automated race to the bottom, Boomerang's tools push retailers into the realm of game theory and psychology — anticipating what competitors» responses to their moves will be, and how shoppers will perceive them.

Quantum theory explains the behaviour of particles and energy at extremely small scales — smaller than atoms that were once considered the building block of all matter.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

HBO's «Westworld» is a series unlike any other, the first season of which provided fan - theory - enthusiasts with more fodder than any single person could digest.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

In theory, each of these ideas would be best tested across more than just one building or street, and all of them would be more easily implemented together.

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One thing leads to another and you find yourself diving down a rabbit hole of less than legal topics and half - serious conspiracy theories.

It's far easier to save a steady percentage of your income from a young age to allow compound interest to do the heavy lifting for you but for many this idea is much easier in theory than practice.

In theory, Sweden has such a rate, but banks there have not taken advantage of it because they already have more funds than anyone wants to borrow.

Law of One Price - The law of one price relates to the theory that any commodity, asset or security will have the same price in more than one exchange.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

The theory was that a miner of the network with more resources could publish many more transactions than a competing small miner could handle and therefore the network would tend towards few large miners rather than many small miners.

On a final note, a new study lends additional credibility to the theory of «wisdom of crowds,» which states that large groups of people are smarter and better at analyzing data than an elite few.

Within the broader risk / reward topic is the theory of «loss aversion,» which states that investors prefer to avoid losses even more than they desire to reap rewards.

That Facebook pursued such a strategy is even less of a surprise than Google's imperious adoption of Wikipedia as conspiracy theory debunker: Facebook's motto was «Making the world more open and connected», and the company has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to do just that, whether users like it or not.

Apple's original competitive advantage — the integration of hardware and software — is more durable than disruption theory would suggest.

But as long as the price action is rewarding buying breakouts, buying into pullbacks, playing the upside momentum then this is more important than any of your theories.

In the real world, perception and psychology are much more closely tied to market pricing behavior than the low - utility Economics 101 theory of supply and demand.

When you see a lot of theory, you end up discovering that everything good is generally simpler than the more complicated things, and this also affected me for the rest of my life» Jorge Paulo Lemann