Quotes about Theoretical

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy.

Everything is hypothetical in hell.

Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life.

Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.

Maximus knows and expressly states that "faith is true knowledge based on unprovable principles, because it is the testimony to things that lie beyond both theoretical and practical reason."

All three of Kepler's laws of planetary motion can be derived from Newtonian principles. Kepler's laws were empirical, based upon the painstaking observations of Tycho Brahe. Newton's laws were theoretical, rather simple mathematical abstractions from which all of Tycho's measurements could ultimately be derived. From these laws, Newton wrote with undisguised pride in the Principia, "I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

The perseverance of the saints is not primarily a theoretical problem but a confession of faith ... a song of praise to God's faithfulness and grace.

Theodicy ... what is involved is not a theoretical answer to the enigma of evil ... but an answer of faith ... the abstract questions of theodicy fall away in the shadow of the event of the cross.

Men have tried to construct abstract and causal answers to this question of sin's origin and have violated the very limits of objectivity. Whoever reflects on the origin of cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather he is engaged intimately, in the problem of sin's guilt.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988).