Theory Quotes

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

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

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

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.

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

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

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

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

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

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.

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

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.