Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

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.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain