Theory Quotes

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.

After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Theory can blind observation.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".