Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.

Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

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 started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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.

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

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 the theory which decides what we can observe

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

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 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 put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

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

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

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

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'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.