Theory Quotations | Page 9

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

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.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

My theory on education is... get one.

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

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.

People love conspiracy theories.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

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

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

One of the most difficult features of direct experince is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

All the theories mess you up inside.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

The mechanistic theory of nature is a theory of nature, and one that I think is wrong, or at least too limited. It's not an eternal truth.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

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

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.