Theory Quotes · Page 161

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can…

— Albert Einstein

Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art…

— Paul Valery

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of…

— George Trumbull Ladd

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without…

— Assata Shakur

The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

— Albert Einstein

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that…

— Stephen Hawking

One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense…

— Miuccia Prada

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford…

— George Carlin

The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without…

— Richard P. Feynman

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

— Thomas Jefferson

Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions…

— Fernando Pessoa

On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues…

— Gerard 't Hooft

Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…

— David Berlinski

There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no…

— Joanne Stepaniak

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism…

— Ha-Joon Chang

No theory changes what it is a theory about. Nothing is changed because we look at it, talk about it, or analyze…

— B. F. Skinner

For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you…

— Laurie Helgoe

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

— James Heckman

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

— Steven Pinker

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

— Norman Lamm

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says…

— Philip Johnson