Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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

The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4.

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

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.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

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.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

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

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

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

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

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

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

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.

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.