Theory Quotes · Page 29

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

— Jeremy Grantham

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

— Stephen Hawking

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

— Alice Neel

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.” —Bernard Baruch”

— Hourly History

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

— Richard P. Feynman

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

— Edward Tufte

I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!

— Viktor Schauberger

“In theory it might be so that the reasons you live are what you’d die for.”

— Daniel C. Tomas

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for…

— John Maynard Smith

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And…

— Jennifer Palmieri

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was…

— Albert Einstein

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David…

— Robert Breault

Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension…

— Peter J. Carroll

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make…

— Clay Shirky

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle…

— Antoine Lavoisier

When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the…

— David Gross

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the…

— E. O. Wilson

“To leave the atom constituted as it was but to interfere with the probability of its undetermined behaviour, does not seem quite…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to…

— Betty Sue Flowers

“For many years, cosmologists have sought, with little success, some fundamental principle which would reveal why the cosmological constant mist be zero.…

— John D. Barrow

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness;…

— Wyndham Lewis

The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to…

— Niels Henrik Abel

“When one looks at the numbers, the situation becomes even more perplexing. The effect of lambda grows steadily with respect to the…

— John D. Barrow

It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.

— Ben Miller

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

— Michael Azerrad

The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

— Paul Davies

“Gut?” “General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.”

— Dan Brown

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright…

— James C. Collins

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

— Charlton Heston

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

— Roger Penrose

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

— Vasily Smyslov

Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

— Janna Levin

“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

— Izaak Walton

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

— Dan Brown

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

— Adolf Hitler