Theory Quotes · Page 100

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union.…

— Thomas Schelling

Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein's theory of relativity - so far, it's holding up well.…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to…

— Wendy Kaminer

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I…

— Fred Hoyle

People think that South Africa and Australia are culturally similar but, having worked in both environments, I found that theory to be…

— Mickey Arthur

It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is…

— John S. Hall

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and…

— Anonymous

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,…

— Thomas Huxley

“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the…

— Geoffrey West

“At a workshop attended by expert researchers in quantum mechanichs in 1997, Max Tegmark took an admittedly highly unscienfific poll of the…

— Sean Carroll

Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive…

— Herbert Marcuse

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one…

— Thomas A. Edison

The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Quantum mechanics, for example, shows us that we are not as separate from the rest of the world as we once thought.…

— Georg Feuerstein

“Don’t be surprised if you open up one of these references and find your eyes crossing at the site of what appears…

— Curt Gabrielson

“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that…

— Charles P. Enz

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came…

— Pieter Zeeman

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater…

— Roger Cohen

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

— Hannah Whitall Smith

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is…

— B. W. Powe

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is…

— Masaaki Imai

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom…

— Pieter Zeeman

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the…

— Deepak Chopra

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it…

— Chuck Palahniuk

But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able…

— Louis Stokes

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know…

— Damon Knight

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the…

— Anonymous

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which…

— Richard Digance

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by…

— David Bronstein

“The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a ‘cosmological constant’ to his equation for the expansion of the universe but then retracted…

— Walter Isaacson

There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be…

— Stephen King

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in…

— Edward Witten

“If quantum mechanics is how reality structures itself, then the world is far weirder than we think. It is truly a wonderful…

— Stavros Halvatzis

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of…

— David Lee

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like…

— Bruce Lipton

The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain…

— Will Hutton

“see also positrons; virtual particles Aristotle, 172–73 Atkins, Peter, 191 baryons, 76 Big Bang, xvii, 95, 107, 150, 173, 189 CMBR left…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created…

— Aldous Huxley

My theory is that I'm just closer to the sun than everyone else. I weigh more than everyone else, I'm taller than…

— John Isner