Theory Quotes · Page 19

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

— Roger Penrose

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century…

— Steven Weinberg

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also…

— Moses Finley

All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because…

— Nevill Francis Mott

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple…

— Graham Russell

[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are…

— Jewel

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

— John Ralston Saul

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

— Nora Ephron

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

— Michael Faraday

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch…

— Roy H. Williams

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

— Michel Foucault

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences…

— Anonymous

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a…

— Veronica Roth

My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain…

— Landon Donovan

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of…

— Michael Coren

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that…

— Anonymous

The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are…

— Naomi Weisstein

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies…

— Roy H. Williams

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable.…

— Michio Kaku

If all this damned quantum jumping were really here to stay, I should be sorry, I should be sorry I ever got…

— Erwin Schrodinger