Theory Quotes · Page 22

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

— Rajneesh

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

— Barry Barish

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

— Robert Frost

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,

— Lisa Randall

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

— Winston Churchill

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis.…

— Vic Braden

“Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of…

— John Archibald Wheeler

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with…

— Charles Kettering

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition…

— Victor Francis Hess

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion…

— Brian McKnight

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the…

— Vladimir Lenin

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…

— Joseph Story

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This…

— Terence McKenna

The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like…

— Albert Einstein

Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in…

— Pope John Paul II

“We create models to explain nature, but the models wind u gate-crashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants. In my lecturing…

— David Mitchell

“On one thing most physicists agree. If the amount of dark energy in our universe were only a little bit different than…

— Alan Lightman

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed,…

— Gordon S. Wood

“in experimental quantum mechanics we have run right up against what was previously perceived to be a purely philosophical barrier. The experiments…

— Jim Baggott

“To illustrate this relation, think of a game of table tennis. As the ball hits the table, it will bounce up and…

— Henning Genz

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

— Yogi Berra

There is another theory that states: This has already happened …

— Douglas Adams

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money…

— Paul Ormerod

My theory is if Tony Williams can sing, and if Kanye West can sing, so can I! So I try!

— Thundercat

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

— Allen Tate

“This is Sailor Supergirl,” George says. “She knows all about black holes.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

— H. Allen Smith

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

— Sue Gardner

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

— Albert Einstein

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

— Michio Kaku

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

— Quincy Jones

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say…

— Niels Bohr

An ounce of action is worth more than a ton of theory, and the reward for a thing well done is having…

— Edwin Mamerto

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

— Wilhelm Wien