Jonathan Raymond

I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad.

American Writer

Sheldon Lee Glashow

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

American Physicist

Abhijit Banerjee

What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.

American Economist

Rudolph A. Marcus

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

Canadian Scientist

Fidel Castro

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Statesman

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Greek Politician

Gore Vidal

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

American Novelist

David Gross

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

Douglas Rushkoff

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

American Journalist

Bob Baffert

American Celebrity

Implies developing new, original ideas rather than following established theories.

Innovation Implication

Not all theorists' ideas are directly applicable; some are more conceptual.

Practicality Varies

A theorist's work is often speculative and awaits experimental verification.

Not Always Proven

Theorists are associated with specific subjects, contributing focused insights.

Subject-Specific

Some theorists draw on knowledge from various fields to form their theories.

Interdisciplinary Work

Theorists can gain recognition for explaining cultural or societal phenomena.

Cultural Significance

 Edward Witten he's a string theorist if you ask the smartest physicists around who's the smartest physicist around in my experience half of them will say ed Witten the other half will tell you they don't like the question so what would happen if I showed up at a physics conference and said string theory is

Science can answer moral...

 literally every corner of the world -- into our house. My wife and kids and I moved to our back garage, and these hackers and programmers and conspiracy theorists and anarchists took over our house. A lot of our friends thought we were absolutely stupid to do that and that we were going to come back

Mick Ebeling: The...

 Now, though this might seem trivial, it's actually really important. This rapid iteration of expressing and then reflecting and analyzing is really the only way in which we get clarity. It's the essence of the design process. And systems theorists do tell us

Tom Wujec: Got a wicked...

 and theorists often serve as architects in the expanding realm of science, the remaining large majority of basic applied scientists, including a large portion of those who could be said to be of the first rank, are the ones who map the terrain, they scout

E.O. Wilson: Advice to...

 So we were trying to be extremely cool about it. And the world ran with it anyway. The news loved it. People said it reminded them of the little bump that was shown on the way toward the Higgs boson discovery. Better than that, my theorist colleagues --

How we explore...

 And this value is crucial. If it were a tiny bit different, then there would be no physical structure in the universe. So this is the first of our dangerous numbers, the strength of the Higgs field. Theorists have spent decades trying to understand

Have we reached the end...

 versus private consumerism in the planet Emily escapes Newton's universe and finds one that looks more like her life full of uncertainty turbulence unpredictability chaos and worse chaos theorists in chaos theory one

Bringing science to life...

 Now let me take you -- I've been a realist -- I went from theorist early to realist. I'm back to theorist again. If you look at the world, you have methane hydrates in the ocean around every continent.

T. Boone Pickens: Let's...

 to introduce myself a little bit I am a game theorist I work on models of conflict and cooperation that have applications in economics political science and elsewhere in life I think

Chimps vs. Humans:...

 I'm afraid I'm one of those speakers you hope you're not going to meet at TED. First, I don't have a mobile, so I'm on the safe side. Secondly, a political theorist