Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.