We need a more complete theory of gravity, he concluded.
Apparently, quantum electrodynamics provides a complete theory of how electrons behave under electromagnetism.
"We have strong reason to believe that the Standard Model is not in itself a complete theory".
It would have to become more than a psychotherapy and develop into a complete theory of the mind.
But string theory has its own problems: it cannot yet claim success in explaining any of nature's specific features, and does not even exist as a complete theory.
So when Stephen Hawking announces that M-theory is "the only candidate for a complete theory of the universe", he's wrong?
"If we discover a complete theory … it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God," he wrote.
Lisa Randall, in her discussion about evolution, may have inadvertently opened the door to the creationists when she says that "evolution is by no means a complete theory".
So already it begins to look as though we might be foiled in a complete theory of everything simply from practical considerations.
"For a supposedly complete theory" of cities, Kotkin says, "this work fails to explain a lot of what's happening right now".
Assuming the general possibility of such expansions, he attempted a rather complete theory of the differential and integral calculus, including extensive applications to geometry and mechanics.
