Pure mathematicians supposedly tell a similar joke about their profession.

Indeed, early theorists of business cycles understood this.

Are the toilet gate conspiracy theorists correct in their paranoia?

And so the theorist guys say, well, I think this is what's going on, and the experimentalist says, no, you're wrong.

Trade economists study the implications of globalization on inequality within and across countries.

Finance theorists have written reams on the consequences of the failure of the efficient markets hypothesis.

Power in a network flows from connectedness, or what network theorists call centrality.

Fortunately, Egyptian and Tunisian democratic activists and theorists are actively debating the parliamentary alternative.

Economic theorists long ago developed models that describe how recessions end on their own.

Some theorists include in this formulation the perceived distance of the moon (how far it appears to be from an observer).

There s a reason conspiracy theorists that existed in the dark corners of the Internet now run the White House.

However, these clinical trauma theorists do not argue that repressed or dissociated memories of horrific events are either inert or benign.

But, as a long term proposition, the case for focusing on trend growth is not as encompassing as many policymakers and economic theorists would have one believe.

But theoretical physicists already know how many different types of components are required to make a quantum computer, and how complicated these components must be.

Sun Tzu and other Chinese military theorists long ago counseled that doing nothing is sometimes the best way to win in the end.

For them, newcomers, living in an environment hostile to their way of life, need to preserve the cultural practices they bring with them, even if some of those practices for example, arranged marriages, gender segregation, religious indoctrination conflict with liberal principles.

Many clinical trauma theorists believe that combat, rape, and other terrifying experiences are seemingly engraved on the mind, never to be forgotten.

Military success against terrorists and insurgents requires soldiers to win hearts and minds, not just break bodies. Leadership theorists speak of shared leadership and distributed leadership, and suggest images of leaders in the center of a circle rather than atop a hierarchy.

Many multicultural theorists, although committed to openness toward immigrants, are not committed to the openness of immigrants to their new home.

Leadership theorists speak of shared leadership and distributed leadership, and suggest images of leaders in the center of a circle rather than atop a hierarchy.

Leadership theorists suggest that we should pay less attention to leaders policy promises than to their emotional intelligence their self mastery and ability to reach out to others.

However, this contribution was so far ahead of its time that the profession did not discover its importance until a quarter century later, when theorists were developing endogenous growth theories.

Military theorists today write about fourth generation warfare that sometimes has no definable battlefields or fronts indeed, the distinction between civilian and military may disappear.

Some security strategists and just war theorists argue that there may be nothing morally objectionable about deterrence in cases where the lives and welfare of a civilian population are not directly affected.

Indeed, this year's annual session of the Academy of Military Sciences saw army commanders and military theorists try to prove that a future source of conflict will be America's desire to control the world's oil rich regions.