Theory Quotes

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.