In America the purely practical part of science is admirably understood, and careful attention is paid to the theoretical portion which is immediately requisite to application. On this head the Americans always display a clear, free, original, and inventive power of mind. But hardly anyone in the United States devotes himself to the essentially theoretical and abstract portion of human knowledge. In this respect the Americans carry to excess a tendency which is, I think, discernible, though in a less degree, amongst all democratic nations.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
For the impracticable, however theoretically enticing, is always politically unwise, sound statesmanship being the application of that prudence to the public business which is the safest guide in that of private men.英文原著 · 《Abraham Lincoln》
In New Haven, Conn., where she was employed in a corset factory, she met Anarchists actively participating in the movement. Here she read the FREIHEIT, edited by John Most. The Haymarket tragedy developed her inherent Anarchist tendencies: the reading of the FREIHEIT made her a conscious Anarchist. Subsequently she was to learn that the idea of Anarchism found its highest expression through the best intellects of America: theoretically by Josiah Warren, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Lysander Spooner; philosophically by Emerson, Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"It may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence. He has been imitated by all succeeding writers; and it may be doubted whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence can be collected than he alone has given to his country."--Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
I shall avoid all attempt at rigid definition. The problem before the modern investigator is, not to determine the essence and definition of religion but to inquire how religious phenomena, religious ideas and practices arose. Now the theoretical content of religion, the domain of theology or mythology, is broadly familiar to all. It is the world of the unseen, the supersensuous; it is the world of what we call the soul and the supposed objects of the soul's perception, sprites, demons, ghosts and gods. How did this world grow up?英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
De Tocqueville found in these minor local jurisdictions the theoretical conservatism which, in the aggregate, is the safest reliance of the State. So we have found them, in practice, the true protectors of the purity of the ballot, without which all free government will degenerate into absolutism.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
Everyone I went to school with works on one of two things -- theoretical particle physics or the next great start-up.美剧 · 《Billions》
If you insist on drawing your pay immediately, and at your discretion... the payout will be 60 cents on the theoretical dollar.美剧 · 《Billions》
Do you want to give me more information or leave it super theoretical?美剧 · 《Billions》
But theoretically, say we weren't friends. Say it's a blind date.美剧 · 《Friends》
There's some theoretical physicist at MIT named Steven Johnson There's some theoretical physicist at MIT named Steven Johnson演讲 · 《The Web as a city ~ Steven Johnson》