Theory Quotes

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.

My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

Theories then are dangerous things.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

Without theory we can only copy.

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

Set theory in sheep's clothing.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

What place, then, for a creator?

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.

String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings.

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.

Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter

His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?