Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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

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

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

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

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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

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

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

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

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 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 sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

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

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

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

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

I don't hold water with that theory

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

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.

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

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

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

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.