Theory Quotes

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

We see the world in terms of our theories.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.