Theory Quotes · Page 24

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

— Wolfgang Ketterle

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

— Leon M. Lederman

Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

“This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at…

— Sol Luckman

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

— Donald Davidson

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to…

— James Lovelock

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying…

— Bill Walsh

As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles…

— Wilhelm Wien

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and…

— Eric Hoffer

I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and…

— Lawrence Jackson

Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a…

— David J. C. MacKay

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life…

— Jeanette Winterson

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the…

— James Hillman

Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk…

— Peter Hitchens

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve…

— Donald Knuth

A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as…

— Raymond Cattell

“Besides the argument based on the unity of nature, there are problems specific to each theory that call for unification with the…

— Lee Smolin

How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by…

— Mao Zedong

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description…

— Janna Levin

“Science is predicated upon the belief that the Universe is algorithmically compressible and the modern search for a Theory of Everything is…

— John D. Barrow

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

“If you think you understand quantum theory . . . you don’t understand quantum theory.’*”

— Richard Dawkins

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

— Anonymous

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

— Anonymous

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

— Denis Diderot

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive…

— David Stove

I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

— Emma Goldman

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

— James Freeman Clarke

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

— Terry Pratchett

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

— Joseph Alsop

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

— John Searle

Have you ever seen Michael Wolff? Now, this isn't a fact, this is just my theory, but he has a gay face.

— Gavin McInnes

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

— Elizabeth Warren