Theory Quotes
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.
Everybody gets better looking on TV as shows go on.Even the nerds on "Big Bang Theory" are getting better looking. Their clothes are getting nicer. They're better groomed. It works for them.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.
The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola
The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?
It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.
I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.
Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
