Theory Quotes · Page 32

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

— Samuel Johnson

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

— Albert Einstein

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

— Bruno Latour

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

— Hermann Hesse

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

— Edith Hamilton

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

— Alexander Suvorov

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

— Amartya Sen

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

— Henri Poincare

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement…

— Noam Chomsky

At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would…

— Terence Tao

“The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the…

— Criss Jami

... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens.…

— Albert Einstein

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have…

— John F. Carlson

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are…

— Umberto Eco

Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he…

— Fran Lebowitz

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value.…

— Sir John Richard Hicks

“I was led to the conclusion that at the most extreme dilutions all salts would consist of simple conducting molecules. But the…

— Svante Arrhenius

A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of…

— Albert Low

Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level…

— Don Edward Beck

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong…

— Anonymous

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and…

— Paul Johnson

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates…

— Walter Isaacson

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try…

— Sheryl Crow

“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or…

— Elif Batuman

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

— Victor J. Stenger

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

— Brian Greene

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

— Jules Verne

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

— George Stigler

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very…

— Kirk Cameron

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

— Arthur Eddington

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

— John Currin

“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

— Alan Guth

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

— Mark Twain

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

— Arthur Koestler

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

— Jill Lepore

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

— Thomas Carlyle