Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

It turns out, in fact, that 'theories of meaning' are typically not about meaning in an everyday or 'folk' sense at all. They are theories designed to compute the truth or assertibility conditions of sentences from their components.

I understand that that`s the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it`s what Donald Trump says, and it`s possible that that is actually the case.

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.