Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

Observation always involves theory.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.