Theory Quotes · Page 138

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

— E. W. Howe

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

— James Joyce

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

— Marisha Pessl

Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has…

— Ronald Fisher

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if…

— Sarah Dessen

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over…

— Richard Dawkins

Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where…

— Stephenie Meyer

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don…

— Douglass North

Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we…

— Noam Chomsky

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I always think out a problem as clearly as possible, and then act on it. My theory has always been to get…

— Dorothy Draper

Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside…

— Deborah Harkness

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,…

— Ingrid Newkirk

However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn…

— Albert Einstein

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy…

— E. O. Wilson

I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the…

— George Perle

The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which…

— Lysander Spooner

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which…

— Arthur Dove

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

— Teresa de Lauretis

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

— Terry Pratchett

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts…

— Richard M. Nixon

Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her…

— Bell Hooks

My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of…

— Ali Larter

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me,…

— Ronald Frame