M Theory Quotes

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It's time for a new theory.

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.