Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

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 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 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 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 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 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 the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

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

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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 this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.

Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.