Theory Quotes
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?
Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.
Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism
Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
