Theory Quotes

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

Osteopath--One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his theory isto be found in the heads of those who believe it.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.

If we accept, as we must, the theory of the indestructibility of matter, no less must we accept the indestructibility of the spirit with which matter is informed.

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.