Sentences with phrase «theory than reality»

She also urges people to think twice before installing a washer / dryer in the kitchen — an idea that seems better in theory than reality, because, as Schwartz explains, «most people don't want to eat where they're washing clothes.»

We hear all the time about technology - enabled collaboration, but it seems more theory than reality.

Town meeting democracy, when all partners participate in virtually every significant and many insignificant decisions, is a better theory than reality.

You can filter games according to your current operating system, which in theory should only show those compatible with SteamOS, but this is still more theory than reality; with the filter on, plenty of Windows - only games still showed up in the search results.

New York's lieutenant governorship, however, has far more power in theory than reality, with a huge percentage of the position's time spent promoting the governor and his agenda.

Not exact matches

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.

And the thing is that you haven't even given all of the theologies and theories to even be brought up to date; that is except only the only Reality finds appropriate without even proving why those particular theories and theologies are even better than others.

But the theory of divine relativity assumes a finer and deeper knowledge of reality than that evidenced by human knowing with its dependence upon sense experience and abstract universals.

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.

No theory need cover the entire range of social realities, of course, but it is worth noting that sociologists seem to have gained more mileage from this framework for their considerations of individual beliefs than for analyses of large - scale institutions.

In making the full Aristotelian move I am really drawing much of my insight from Science and the Modern World, a book four years earlier than the full - blown theory of Process and Reality.

In fact, physics now resembles metaphysics more than anything else, with its theories to explain how realities unobservable by us produce the visible world.

Again, according to his theory of causality that establishes that a substance has at least as much reality as its effect, his idea of God can not be more perfect than God, who, as the cause, must surely exist.

God's reality is posited rather than simply affirmed, and it is removed from the realm of theory and located in that of practical thought.

Obviously, we can do a lot more damage forcing reality to fit into a reductivist model than being patient enough to require that the theory describes reality.

Thus community is championed more in theory than in reality, more as an ideal of liberal universalism than as the diverse relational structures that impose themselves upon us in everyday life.

Instead the Church ruled his theories to be a «mathematical hypothesis» rather than a reality that could threaten how some interpreted doctrine.

While that may be true in theory, the reality is that safety is and has always been more valuable than freedom.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

In theory, because of his height and position, Motiejunas should have a better rebound percentage than Jones, but in reality Dmo is slightly below as you stated.

It is just sometimes harder in reality than in theory.

Many of the multiple - realities theories suggest an unbounded number of worlds, and if the number of realities can be infinite, then there can't be more VRs than realities; infinity is as many as there can be.

When we science writers describe string theory, we usually trot out something like this: The theory defines the fundamental constituents of physical reality not as minuscule particles but as shimmying strands of energy less than a trillionth of a trillionth the size of an atom.

In theory, it sounded perfect, but in reality, it was a lot more difficult than I would have ever imagined.

Unfortunately, it sounds better in theory than it works in reality.

In an age where conspiracy theories are more popular than reality - TV shows, director Roland Emmerich and writerJohn Orloff not only ask, but offer an answer that question.

In theory, this seems like a good approach, but in reality, Maggie tends to be less than enthralling.

Unfortunately, too much of our debate about pensions focuses on theory rather than reality.

And when speaking to audiences of teachers, I've noted that any suggestion that «differentiated instruction» works better in theory than in reality usually elicits applause or, at minimum, a knowing and somewhat cynical chuckle.

Worse, NPPC is stuck on the theory of pensions rather than trying to understand what happens in reality.

Particularly in big cities, however, this often turns out to work better in theory than in reality.

We know this because Fordham is fortunate to be more than just a think tank (definition: a place where reality is examined to see if it accords with theory).

An official fuel economy figure of 68.8 mpg should in theory mean the Duratorq engine is at least cheap to run, but in reality we managed no more than 50mpg on account of having to push it fairly hard to maintain decent progress.

However, we should keep in mind that the Kindle Fire is yet to be released and properly tested, which means that in reality it could well look a little different than what it looks right now in theory.

However, according to Dan Hallett, the theory has often been better than the reality.

There's probably plenty of sub-cash valuations these days — interesting in theory, but in reality most management teams will be hell - bent on pissing the cash away, rather than handing it back to shareholders.

Or, to put it another way, it would be a huge mistake to stay 100 % in stocks on the theory that «you can handle it» only to find that the reality of owning an all - equity portfolio during a market meltdown like the 50 % - plus downturn from late 2007 to early 2009 is more financially and emotionally unsettling than it seemed when stock prices were at or near a peak.

This is where the theory and reality diverge: The majority of companies that don't pay out a significant portion of cash flows in dividends (or stock buybacks, though I place more value on dividends, as stock buybacks could be postponed) more often than not end up destroying shareholder wealth in empire - building acquisitions or marginal capital investments (if they had better investments to begin with they would spend cash right away).

I think the above statement in quotes is more of a theory rather than reality.

Sometimes, the family road trip is a whole lot more peaceful in theory than in reality.

Now when they compare the predictions of this compliant herd with actual reality and note that not once (so far) have any of them been proven correct with any theories that warming is other than benign or beneficial, then that's real science, ie the comparison of hypothesis with real data.

Whatever theory better fits the reality of gravity ought to be able to handle the maths and give, rather than a real infinity, a number that is limited to non-infinite value.

Down in the valley many of us just care about what works and what doesn't so we'd prefer people just to deal with the realities that puncture their overly simplistic theory rather than the lofty pretense of moral superiority and the rampant hypocrisy.

One truly has to wonder what alternate reality Phil Shabecoff lives in, regarding his «crimes against humanity» comment at Gelbspan's post, which happens to be an insider's reference to Gelbspan's 2004 Boiling Point book chapter 3 title, «Criminals Against humanity,» which contains on page 51 Gelbspan's favorite phrase bit of so - called smoking gun evidence, the leaked memo phrase «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»

When reality is changing faster than theory suggests it should, a certain amount of nervousness is a reasonable response.

You are morally comfortable researching your method as long as it works in theory, but nothing would hurt more than to try to apply it and to learn that it doesn't work in reality.

As for lying, I have observed many scientists seem to have no difficulty with lying when they connect, without a shred of evidence, supportive modeling or any data or often even any theory such things as extreme weather is getting worse or is linked to CO2, wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier, that the ocean swallowed the «missing heat», using a proxy upside down doesn't matter, the models are still adequate for policy even after such a huge divergence from reality, coral die - back is due to manmade warming rather than fishing, all warming must be bad rather than beyond a certain threshold, etc, etc, etc..

Sully insisted that reality is different than theory.

This, of course, is a theory and not reality, but we can save significant premiums by assessing mortality prospects and minimizing the cash value buildup when mortality probabilities are more in favor of dying around, say, age 85 than age 100.

In fact, lessons should command the reality of learning than the superficial knowledge of theories and lessons only.