Theory Quotes

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

My theory about Taylor Swift is that she's a virgin, that everyone breaks up with her because they date her for two weeks and she's like, 'I'm not gonna do it'.

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

Everybody has a theory.

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

The best practice is inspired by theory.

We pay billions - hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are.

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day.