Theory Quotes · Page 123

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving…

— George Eliot

The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It…

— Anonymous

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

“I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming…

— Allegra Goodman

[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the…

— Thomas George Bonney

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence…

— Aldous Huxley

Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast.…

— Karl Popper

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real…

— Greg Laurie

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described…

— Stephen Hawking

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By…

— Noam Chomsky

To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer,…

— John R. Pierce

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest…

— Sherry Turkle

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

— Tim Robbins

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules…

— Noam Chomsky

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass…

— Leonardo da Vinci

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers,…

— Jay Roach

Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe…

— Morgan Freeman

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing…

— Betty Sue Flowers

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

— Albert Einstein

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or…

— Russell Kirk

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as…

— H. L. Mencken