Theory Quotes · Page 26

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

— Ayda Field

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

— Pauline Kael

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

— Mark Twain

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

— William Stanley Jevons

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

— Imre Lakatos

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

— B. F. Skinner

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

— Peter Higgs

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a…

— Camille Paglia

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How…

— Bill Maher

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those…

— Sophus Lie

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they…

— Dave Davies

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about…

— Robert Caro

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace…

— Emanuel Celler

Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths,…

— Swami Vivekananda

“After Elsa’s death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was…

— Manjit Kumar

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant,…

— Robin McKinley

The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity...…

— Hermann Minkowski

The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive…

— Maira Kalman

“Except for professional athletes, dancers, cowboys, and a few other groups, most people in modern industrial societies have abnormally low energy expenditures.…

— Randolph M. Nesse

We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it…

— Herbert Hoover

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

— Karl Popper

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

We're going to be seeing things from regions in the universe where Einstein is the whole story. Newton you can forget about.

— Rainer Weiss

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

— Julie James

My theory is that women simply can't get along with each other or work well together.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

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

— Denis Diderot

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

— Jean Baudrillard

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

— Albert Einstein

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

— John B. S. Haldane

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and…

— Laura Mvula

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

— John Lithgow

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

— Stanley Fish

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

— Anton Yelchin