Theory Quotes
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.
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'.
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.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
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.
I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
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.
It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
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 the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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.
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 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.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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.
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
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.
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.
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.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.
And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!