Theories Quotes · Page 5

I have thoughts therefore I have questions, that's why I decline to pledge allegiance.

— Raghib Clitso

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

— Hosea Ballou

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

— Jason Ritter

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

— Richard Holbrooke

“Questions married other questions and had theories for children.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

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

— Dan Brown

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

— August Bier

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

He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature…

— Janeane Garofalo

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

— Kary Mullis

Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean…

— Paul Feyerabend

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens,…

— Monica Johnson

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we…

— Terence McKenna

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there…

— Harold Jeffreys

While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies…

— Douglas Lain

The running joke on set [of the Westworlds] was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.…

— Shreya Ghoshal

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that…

— Franz Boas

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths…

— William James

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

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

— Charley Lau

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

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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

— Rem Koolhaas

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

— Brian Silver

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Paul Feyerabend

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

— Nicki Elson

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

— Alexander Pope

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

— Siri Hustvedt

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

— Anonymous

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

— George Stigler

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

— Jorge Luis Borges

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

— John Currin

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Marcel Proust