Theories Quotes

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

— Will Rogers

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

— Mary Leakey

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

— Michael Cunningham

“Theories without data are like daydreams.”

— Jonathan Rottenberg

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

— Milton Friedman

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

— Roger Cohen

All the theories mess you up inside.

— Paul Cezanne

We see the world in terms of our theories.

— Thomas Kuhn

“The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.”

— Jameson Currier

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Michael Polanyi

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

— Constance Fenimore Woolson

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

— Ernst Mayr

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

— Bela Lugosi

“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. There”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“metaphysics by showing that these theories are not just false, but unintelligible.”

— David Hume

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

— Derek Bok

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

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

— Alison Gopnik

“If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the…

— Herbert A. Simon

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at…

— Michael Specter

“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh…

— Aberjhani

I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything.…

— Edgar Mitchell

I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who…

— Brian Eno

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness…

— Michael Hayden

“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is…

— Michael Crichton

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One…

— Elihu Root

“You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who…

— Albert Einstein

“I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out,any more than a normal…

— David Levithan

“Boehme makes such leaps, such contradictions, such confusions of thought. It is as though he wishes to vault directly into heaven upon…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded…

— Marcus du Sautoy

“All the best physical theories are associated with equations which allow the continuation of data defined at present into the future, and…

— John D. Barrow

“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows…

— Alan F. Chalmers

[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard…

— Hari Kunzru

“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr