Theory Quotes · Page 31

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

— Ludwig Boltzmann

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

— A. E. van Vogt

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

— Isaac Asimov

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

— Marisha Pessl

When we cannot look around and explain anything we are the quantum world.

— Akiane Kramarik

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

— Tucker Carlson

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

— Marcel Proust

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

— Michel Foucault

“That is the theory; hold to the theory and to the comforts of theory. Not human evil, just a vast circulatory system,…

— J.M. Coetzee

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within…

— Robert Nozick

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to…

— Agnes Repplier

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, "…

— Paulo Freire

The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in…

— John Stuart Mill

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to…

— Richard P. Feynman

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years…

— Bent Larsen

There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that…

— Ruth Bancroft Law

If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the…

— Max Born

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It…

— Cyril Connolly

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the…

— Brian Greene

Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may…

— Wolfgang Pauli

Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in…

— Peter Singer

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by…

— Albert Einstein

“The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.”

— Nigel S. Hey

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.

— Heinz von Foerster

“I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should…

— Charles Bowden

“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.”

— William James

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it…

— Christopher Hampton

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

— James May

Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.

— Arthur Eddington

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

— Peter R. Grant

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

— Norwood Russell Hanson

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

— Louis Leterrier

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Unlike classical certainty, quantum systems describe likelihoods, not fixed outcomes.”

— Ludmila Morozova-Buss

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

— Jacques Monod

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

— Daniel Lyons

“At that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory”

— Augusten Burroughs