Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.