Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

I don't hold water with that theory

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 really believe in the auteur theory.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 theories are destructive.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

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 that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

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