Famous quotes containing the words general, system and/or theory:
“It was the words descended into Hades
That seemed too pagan to our liberal youth.
You know they suffered from a general onslaught.
And well, if they werent true why keep right on
Saying them like the heathen? We could drop them.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary livingin this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.”
—Ruth Hubbard (b. 1924)