Thesis Quotes

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.