Theory Quotes

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.