Theory Quotes

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

We need useless theory more than ever today.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

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.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

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.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

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.

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

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.