Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

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

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

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

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.

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Even theories must have foundations.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.