There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.” — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect? — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers,… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Nikola Tesla teaches us to look within without looking at the entirety of the seeable universe. When we do this we're tapping… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what… — Otto Robert Frisch Copy Share Image
On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won’t work unless you observe him fixing it” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will Copy Share Image
Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. — August Bier Copy Share Image
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent. — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“That’s why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls,” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican. — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
