Theories Quotes · Page 4

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

— Albert Einstein

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

— Constance Fenimore Woolson

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

— Michael Polanyi

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

— Milton Friedman

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

— John Marston

“If one of the five theories describes our univers, who lives in the other four worlds”

— Edward Witten

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all…

— Ludovico Einaudi

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with…

— Leonard Susskind

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of…

— Natasha Trethewey

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when…

— Chinua Achebe

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated…

— Thomas Sowell

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at…

— David Deutsch

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in…

— Bradley A. Smith

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,…

— Derek Bok

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act…

— Alison Gopnik

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have…

— Muhammad Yunus

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said…

— E. L. Doctorow

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame.…

— Paul Feyerabend

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that…

— Anonymous

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on…

— Claude Bernard

“A defense [of religion] is needed because none has been forthcoming. The discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief…

— David Berlinski

“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others.…

— Ray Bradbury

“Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell.

— Emo Philips

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

— Alex Chiu

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

— William Whewell

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

— David Wong

“#Science is not carved on the tablets of marble. Theories have arisen, worked, challenged, and superseded.”

— Brian Silver

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

— Rem Koolhaas

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.”

— Nicki Elson

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

— Paul Feyerabend

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

— Mark Twain

“Gut?” “General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.”

— Dan Brown

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

— Charley Lau

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

— August Bier

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

— Marcel Proust