Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

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 Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

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

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

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 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 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 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 humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

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

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

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