Sentences with phrase «than the theory says»

That is, investors who bill themselves as dyed in the wool value guys have far wimpier performance than the theory says they should.

Not exact matches

We say in theory, because, despite companies such as IBM and Intel pursuing light - based computing, the transition is easier said than done.

The Muslim theory that unborn babies receive their soul at forty days enables them to agree with us on eight of the nine months of pregnancy, and as Chesterton said, something is better than nothing!

Jones is saying that the assessment of Rome's contribution to the world is more complicated than current critical theory (or it's popular religious manifestation in progressive Christianity) allows for.

well if i had a theory and later found it to not be ture and refuted it then i would not want anyone else to belive it either as i found it wasnt true and further more i would like to think that me and all other humans are better than coming from an animal that eats bugs off its friends and throws its own poo... I'm just saying

They escape «the theories of the books,» being always something more than can be said of them by words.

Science is made up of more theory than proof, and i am not quick to believe any mortal / finite man saying he found the answers to the universe which is infinite.

Although in the strictest sense I would say that both Romney and Ryan are more interested in worshiping Mammon than the Christian God, based on their economic theories.

or those who have been saying that science is another «belief system» what they don't understand is that while science has many theories, and not as many «laws» is that the rigors that are used to support theories are much more intense than «the man in the clouds spoke to me.»

Although we can not be as certain of this idea as we can of a hard - core commonsense notion, we can, I believe, be much more certain of it than, say, of the neo-Darwinian theory of how evolution occurred.

Today, more than three hundred years after John Locke spelled out his theory that the greatest good is served by each person following his or her own best interests, some economists and politicians are still trying to bend and stretch this outmoded «explanation» of life to fit social realities that say it just doesn't meet human needs today.

In fairness to Girard, I must say that he realizes very clearly that the key to the whole problem is found in the Prologue of John, but he writes in the genre of sociological theory rather than the genre of theology, which prevents him from speaking as freely as he might of the Incarnation of the Word of God in human history.

I am glad that there are people who willingly say we do not know, than proclaim the theory of god is the right one.

Illustrates clearly what Christopher Hitchens was saying in his book «The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice», specifically how her hospitals were more keen on proselytizing to the dying than actually helping them with their pain.

The American Christian debate about just war theory is in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.

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.»

Popper gives a quotation from R. A. Millikan (1932) in which this physicist says that nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914, which finally brought about practically universal acceptance of the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons.

Science can not prove intuition, yet we believe it exists, science can not explain why we yawn, yet we do everyday, Einsteins theory of relativity says we can not travel than the speed of light, yet we have already clocked a particle moving faster than 186,282 miles per hour.

One begins with a restricted generalization descriptive of phenomena encountered in one field of inquiry (e.g., physics, physiology, psychology, etc.); one then (as he says) «makes a flight into the thin air of generalization» — framing the description to cover all actualities — finally landing again to see how the theory squares with observed fact in areas other than the one from which the inquiry began.

Such views do not (any more than, say, Toynbee's philosophy of history) constitute an evolutionist theory or an evolutionary cosmology.

Quantum Mechanics is WAY weirder and more complex than, say, evolution (though I like how you threw the big bang in there — separate theories, dude), but you won't really hear any religious nuts complaining about the exact same process that gives us QM because it doesn't conflict with their ancient mythology.

Pope John Paul II had this to say about it:» New knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis.

The Bible, therefore, is more interested in particular legislation than with theories of law; it is not content to exhort the reader to be kind and honest in general but is concerned to say specifically what kindness and honesty mean.

Nor need outsiders simply follow Muslims: It is possible both in theory and in practice for an outside scholar to break new ground in stating the meaning of a faith in, say, modern terms more successfully than a believer.

That isn't what Jesus said or wanted, and your theory is no more representative of the Facts than your belief in an imaginary friend!

creationism has nothing at all and has never been verified and can not make any prediction, it is not a theory any more than say which type of wood makes a better magic wand.

You can do so much better than to resort to such stock canards as «If humans evolved from monkeys when you know full well what the theory of evolution says regarding the multiple species of primates.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»

It should be said that such a notion is akin to the theory of Marcion rather than to anything to be found either in the New Testament itself or in the writings of Christian theologians.

However, while in theory I like the thought of no dirty dishes, I will say that, practically speaking, I find it much easier to mix the ingredients together in a separate bowl, rather than in the pan.

Let's hope he» said better than the old lazy money grabbing theory Walcott eh?

Well I can actually; it is because he is an easy target and like Wenger says, these so - called football experts seem to be happy to regurgitate a theory they have heard rather than actually think for themselves.

In theory, having an awesome 21 - year - old is better than having an equally awesome 23 - year - old, because history says that when the 21 - year - old is 23, he'll be more awesome than the 23 - year - old had been.

Other than that, he seemed to subscribe to the theory that Bubba Watson offered on Tuesday, when the reigning Masters champion said he would «lay back» off the tee to ensure he hit the fairways and stayed out of the weeds that lined the short grass.

There is a whole theory of parenting called Good Enough parenting that says that it is actually better to raise children as a good enough parent, rather than a perfect parent.

Said simply, this method is «phenomena centered» rather than based on the testing and application of theories.

In Germany, although there is agreement - in theory - on the value of breastfeeding and it has been clearly said, that breastfeeding is the feeding method of choice for an infant, this statement is more a mantra than a real commitment by the government or health services to act.

«There was a theory,» said Brodsky, a former Democratic assemblyman, «that if Bill de Blasio had maintained his first - year support among voters, that his late endorsement would mean more than an early endorsement.

But, from a conceptual basis, while applying on a transaction by transaction basis rather than to the company itself, Value Added Tax does (at least in theory) what it says on the tin, namely taxes the «value added» by a business - this being the difference between the value an item is sold for and what it cost to create.

They haven't said they would, but in theory such a move would give de Blasio some leverage to fight for more pre-K money than the governor has proposed in his own proposed statewide alternative.

«With all the theories of Dr. Bawumia... they still have to go back and resort to a very poor economic management module of the IMF, which is now the solution of a government that is supposed to be far better than us,» Mr. Adongo said.

Megna, no stranger to the economic theory of sunk costs, said it was better to unload the building than keep it.

In normal opinion polls Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters say they are far more likely to vote than Labour voters, and therefore — the theory goes — if everyone voted it would favour Labour.

«The burst appeared to be more luminous than the whole rest of the universe, and that would be very hard to explain by most current theories,» says California Institute of Technology professor of astronomy Shrinivas Kulkarni, who was part of a team that investigated GRB 990123.

This is the strongest confirmation yet of cosmic inflation theories, which say the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye.

«So rather than a theory based approach which may make judgements that don't reflect the lived experience of extreme sports participants, we took a phenomenological approach to ensure we went in with an open mind,» he said.

EINSTEIN said it couldn't be done, but more than a century later the velocity of a zigzagging dust particle has been measured directly, proving his theory right.

Theory suggests that qutrits can become more strongly entangled than qubits, says physicist Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

«In theory, it would be easier to show misconduct under Wellcome's definition than under the U.S. definition,» says Pascal, who notes that the OSTP rules are likely to go into effect at several — but not all — U.S. departments by the end of this year.

«The joke is there are far more theories than there are observed bursts,» said coauthor Jason Hessels of the University of Amsterdam in a news conference January 10.