Theory Quotes · Page 33

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your…

— Octavia Butler

“That’s a hallmark of good theory: it dispenses its advice in “if-then” statements.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

“Isaac Newton was a brilliant British mathematician and physicist who came up with three laws of motion,”

— Jerome Pohlen

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

— Anonymous

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

— Barbara Corcoran

Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.”

— Vernor Vinge

“Can you expand on your answer concerning dark matter, which I asked about in a previous session?”

— J. Steven Reichmuth

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern…

— Richard Goldschmidt

The rabid opposition to group selection has now considerably subsided. In the process, the conceptual structure of evolutionary theory has become clearer,…

— Elliott Sober

... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains.…

— Daniel Dennett

On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would…

— Arthur Eddington

I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't…

— Andrea M. Ghez

My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a…

— Tina Barney

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being…

— Richard Morris

Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes,…

— Nehemiah Adams

Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we…

— Noam Chomsky

We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what…

— Alain Badiou

Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a…

— Peter Medawar

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific…

— Thomas Kuhn

The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate…

— Mark Carwardine

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

— Niels Bohr

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

— Paul Dirac

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

— Ben Miller

Ill search every day. Every hour, minute, second I have to find a way. To the secret of this dark matter.

— London Elektricity

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

— George W. Bush

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

— Josh Billings

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

— Charlotte Bronte

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

— Mark Knopfler

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary...

— Kimon Nicolaides

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

— Lisa Randall

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth…

— Ernst Mayr

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

— Blake Judd

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing…

— Joyce Grenfell

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.

— Erwin Schrodinger

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

— Savielly Tartakower