Theory Quotes

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

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.

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

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

..if the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: "Who's the third?"

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.