Best 629 quotes in «theory quotes» category

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.