Sentence examples for misunderstood ideas from inspiring English sources

The uncertainty principle is one of the most famous (and probably misunderstood) ideas in physics.

It is this work in which Nietzsche made his famous (and much misconstrued) statement that "God is dead" and in which he presented some of the most influential and well-known (and likewise misunderstood) ideas of his philosophy, including those of the Übermensch ("superman") and the "will to power".

[Laughter] I just want to say that I think that moral hazard is a terribly misunderstood idea and that as the central bank we have a responsibility to help markets function normally and to promote economic stability broadly speaking.

The third is the well-known (if mildly misunderstood) idea that every action (force) has an equal but opposite reaction – if you push on a door, the door will push back against you.

Critics said he was deceitful and misunderstood the ideas he was attacking.

But in the end, he told The Oregonian, he never regretted the hubbub his theological work had caused, however misunderstood his ideas might have been.

During his lifetime, he complained bitterly that the nation's leaders had misunderstood his ideas and initiated a far more militaristic and dangerous confrontation with the Soviet Union than he ever intended.

As a historian of alternative spiritual movements, I strive to understand the careers of people who lived by unusual -- and often misunderstood -- ideas.

In particular, the theory of cognitive apprenticeship suggests that instructor talk explicitly describing how an expert may have previously misunderstood the ideas at hand or how he or she approached a given problem can be supportive of student learning after students themselves have explored their own thinking on the topic.

"They've misunderstood the idea of collective attachment and collective ownership of a service.

As we talked, Kaling made a strong case for one way in which her series has been misunderstood: her idea for Mindy Lahiri, she said, wasn't a spunky role model like Mary Tyler Moore.