Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

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

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

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

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

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

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.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

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

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.

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 which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

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

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.