Theory Quotes

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Any theory is better than no theory.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.