Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Gray is the color of all theory

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

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

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

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

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

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 hold water with that theory

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