Theory Quotes · Page 23

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

— W. H. Auden

“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”

— Fredric Jameson

Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.

— Frederick Lenz

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

— Lene

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

— Max von Laue

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

— Elliott Sober

“Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.”

— Neal Stephenson

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

— Luis A. Ferre

“The real business of theory is not to come up with specific proposals for regulation, but to construct legal reality in another…

— Anonymous

I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

— James Gleick

“Leadership is built on inspirations. Inspiration does both the theoretical and the practical job. By inspiration, people are not only informed to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to…

— Jim Peebles

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of…

— Ed Stoppard

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory…

— George Stigler

“There has been much debate on the matter, but the present state of understanding is that no useful information can ever emerge…

— Alastair Reynolds

“Instead, in what he later described as his greatest blunder, he changed his equations by adding an extra term that allowed our…

— Max Tegmark

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for…

— Tom Ellis

In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If…

— Jonathan Gottschall

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

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete…

— Nalini Singh

Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which…

— Lysander Spooner

“For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the pioneers of time travel, it’s…

— Christina Engela

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an…

— Jordan Peterson

“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.”

— Immanuel Kant

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

— Brian Greene

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

— Madonna Ciccone

“Real science is recognizing an outcome, not always about reinforcing your theory.”

— Jeffrey Fry

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

— Michel de Montaigne

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

— Lisa Randall

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

— Wendell Berry

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

— Vern Poythress

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

— Gerrit Smith

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

— Richard Dawkins

“Occam’s Razor: The simplest theory is usually the correct one.” He”

— David S. Brody

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

— Bernard Bailyn

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

— Jim Peebles

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

— Albert Einstein