Theory Quotes
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.
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.
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.
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
I need an endorphin boost.” “And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one?” “No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and I’m more than happy to test the theory.
Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell.
My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.
