Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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 an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

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.

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise.

I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

I don't hold water with that theory

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and by the time he or she reaches the top becomes a complete idiot. Certainly they do not deserve the outrageous salary.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.