Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

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.

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

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

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

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.