Theory Quotes

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

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

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

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

String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

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.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.