Theory Quotes

I have long had a theory Bill Clinton-Hillary Clinton relationship. Not how they met, not that story, not the courtship or any of that. But how it happened that this once-in-a-lifetime woman.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's combine all these results. Surprisingly, sometimes it works.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.

Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to make it all okay.

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.