Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

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. . .

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

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

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

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

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

Topology and number theory are my faves.

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

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

We need useless theory more than ever today.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell.