Theory Quotes · Page 128

I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are…

— Zadie Smith

“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead,…

— Paulina Ochoa Espejo

Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism…

— Elliott Sober

My theory on education is... get one.

— Mary Matalin

If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used…

— Albert Einstein

New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that…

— Pope John Paul II

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual…

— Herbert Marcuse

“A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the…

— Michael Crichton

An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the…

— Stephen Smale

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting…

— Dabney Coleman

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

— Wendy Kaminer

In contrast to creation, Darwinism does not have a single piece of evidence demonstrating the theory of evolution. Its proponents don't have…

— Harun Yahya

There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why…

— Douglas Adams

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

— Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he…

— Bob Hawke

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

— Claude Debussy

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

There is another theory that states: This has already happened ....

— Douglas Adams

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

— B. F. Skinner

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the…

— Madame de Stael

What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization --…

— Elinor Ostrom

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more…

— Claude Bernard

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

— William A. Dembski