Theory Quotes · Page 21

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to…

— Barack Obama

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

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

— Joy Harjo

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

— Emanuel Lasker

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

— Immanuel Kant

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.”

— Tim Goossens

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

— William Stanley Jevons

The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory…

— Leigh Page

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only…

— Douglas Sirk

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced…

— Emile Durkheim

“Meant to be," Kate scoffs. "Excuse me but I'm having a hard time buying all of this woo-woo stuff... Nothing happens without…

— Gayle Forman

“Alas, the historical name is ‘actor-network-theory’, a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.”

— Bruno Latour

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not…

— David Bohm

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to…

— Paul Ormerod

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of…

— Bertrand Russell

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with…

— Margaret Halsey

All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,…

— Jacob Bronowski

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the…

— James Russell Lowell

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the…

— Angela Carter

There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the…

— Henry Augustus Rowland

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot…

— Dean Koontz

What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said…

— John Hurt

No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

— Michio Kaku

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

— O. Henry

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

— Albert Einstein

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights…

— Louis Althusser

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

— Karl Marx

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think 'The Big Bang Theory' is one of the greatest written TV shows of all time.

— Ser'Darius Blain

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

— Jason Ritter

“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

— August Wilhelm von Hofmann

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

— Andrew Lo

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder