Theory Quotes · Page 134

I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for…

— Amanda Marcotte

It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can…

— Werner Heisenberg

In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory.…

— George Saunders

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims....…

— Murphy J. Foster, Jr

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

— Keith Sullivan

Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live…

— Elliott Sober

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk…

— Robin Ince

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

— Benito Mussolini

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

— Peter Brook

Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that…

— Lisa Randall

True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion…

— Swami Vivekananda

Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining…

— Vassily Ivanchuk

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding…

— Noam Chomsky

Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or…

— Christine Sneed

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

— Stephen Hawking

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

— Neil Kinnock

A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an…

— Richard Dawkins

“Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.”

— Peter Ackroyd

I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a…

— Chelsea Handler

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The…

— Martin Durkin

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

— David Mamet

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

— David Bronstein

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

— Albert Einstein

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

— Israel Gelfand