Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

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.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Even theories must have foundations.

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

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.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

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

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Gray is the color of all theory

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

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

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

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

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

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.

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.