Thesis Quotes

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Fear, Humorous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

  Karl Popper

  Truth, Mistake, Knowledge

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.15, Routledge

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• The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Education, Fear

  A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)

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• Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.

  Jack Heffron

  Writing, Pages, Way

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• The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Writing, Science, Mind

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• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  Don Young

  Stress, War, College

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

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Two, Synthesis, Truth Is

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• Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Criticism, Done

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.3007, Delphi Classics

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• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  Pat Robertson

  Prayer, Powerful, People

  Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. April 9, 2006.

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• You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Should Have, Ideas

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• I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

  Bob McDonnell

  Welfare, Policy

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• People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

  Reid Hoffman

  Careers, People, Matter

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• My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.

  Nikki Jean

  Art, Ugly, Realism

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• I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.

  Michael Moore

  Grateful, School, Film

  Interview with Andrew Collins, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2002.

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• You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.

  Hosain Rahman

  Littles, Phds, Like You

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• Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Synthesis, Kingdoms

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Groups, Tasks, Nuclear

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• I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

  Ivan Reitman

  Thinking, Way, Film

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Exercise, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Ralph Barton Perry (1964). “Puritanism and Democracy”

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• Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.

  Peter van Inwagen

  Unique, Law, Alternatives

  Peter Van Inwagen (1993). “Metaphysics”

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• And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Exercise, Numbers, Political

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• It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

  John Norman

  Sex, Practice, Imagination

  "Imaginative Sex". Book by John Norman, 1974.

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• Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

  Jane Goodall

  Selfish, Genes, Courses

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

  Bill Buxton

  Order, Best Effort, Design

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann

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• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

  Yann Martel

  Self, Sloth, Three

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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