Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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

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

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 the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I don't hold water with that theory

I don't like writing essays or theory.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

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 have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.