Theory Quotes · Page 140

The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue…

— Argus Hamilton

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.

— Emanuel Lasker

Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love…

— E. O. Wilson

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…

— Fritjof Capra

It's scientifically proven that chocolate improves your mood. There is something in it that can make you happier and I stand by…

— Odeya Rush

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that…

— Paul Davies

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned…

— Condoleezza Rice

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be…

— Freeman Dyson

We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.…

— Andrei Sakharov

The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure…

— John Lennox

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a…

— Albert Einstein

[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to…

— John Maynard Keynes

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature…

— David Deutsch

The best theory is inspired by practice.

— Donald Knuth

The theory must not contradict empirical facts,

— Albert Einstein

Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"…

— Harold B. Lee

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,…

— Charles de Lint

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

— Joy Harjo

I could talk about technique, theory and gear for days!

— John Petrucci

As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom.…

— H. L. Mencken

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information…

— Richard Hamming

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or…

— David Deutsch

There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there…

— Richard P. Feynman

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that…

— H. L. Mencken

I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's…

— Jhene Aiko