Theory Quotes · Page 30

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

— Assar Lindbeck

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

— Jennifer Wyatt

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

— David Gross

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

— Mark Twain

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

— Gerard Debreu

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

— Cristina Saralegui

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with…

— Anonymous

I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about…

— Evan Rachel Wood

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for…

— Herman E. Daly

“There is no formula that can deliver all truth, all harmony, all simplicity. No Theory of Everything can ever provide total insight.…

— John D. Barrow

We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know…

— Edgar Mitchell

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who…

— Stephen King

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

— Nathan Myhrvold

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I…

— Cornel West

The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear…

— Aristotle

Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach…

— Elon Musk

Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that…

— Everett C. Olson

The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue…

— Argus Hamilton

With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting…

— Fritz Zwicky

“Impressed by the success of high-level mathematics in the formulation of the general theory of relativity in 1915, we find that Einstein's…

— John D. Barrow

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

— Kara Ross

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

— Patricia Churchland

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

— Shmuel Weinberger

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

— Norman Lamm

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

— Brian Kilmeade

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.

— Ashoke Sen

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

— Balthazar Getty

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

— Arthur Koestler

“Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.”

— Stephen H. Wolinsky

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

— Russell Baker

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

— Albert Einstein

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Black boys always fancy a mixed-race girl. That's my theory anyway.

— Miquita Oliver

Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

— Niels Bohr