Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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.

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

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.

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

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

Even theories must have foundations.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

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 doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

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

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

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

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

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.

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.

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

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.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

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.

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

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

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

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

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

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

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

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

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 even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.

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