Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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.

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

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

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

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

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

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

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

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

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 loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.