Theory Quotes · Page 37

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Critical race theory - any academic theory - is not considered in my sentencing. It never comes up in sentencing.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

My theory is to let everyone in on what works and let the best man win.

— Brian Shaw

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

— James Cash Penney

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

— Frederick Lenz

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

— Lee Smolin

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

— Thomas Jefferson

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from…

— Albert Einstein

Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to…

— William James

Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he…

— Will Rogers

The emission of a particle is exactly equivalent to the absorption of it's antiparticle. If this is true,(and I believe it is)…

— Johnny Luckett

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet…

— Edmund Burke

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,…

— Benjamin Tucker

“The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing…

— Antony Flew

“Special relativity killed the classical dream of using the energy-momentum-velocity relations of a particle as a means of probing the dynamic origins…

— Abraham Pais

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going…

— Charlie Hunnam

Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish…

— Jacob Bronowski

This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I…

— Glen Duncan

Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge…

— Ian Hacking

“Quantum Technology Is No Longer Theoretical The quantum revolution is not the discovery of quantum physics. It is the transition from understanding…

— Ludmila Morozova-Buss

The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of…

— Karl Marx

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical…

— Albert Goldbarth

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

— Karl Popper

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

— Moon Bloodgood

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

— David Wolfe

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

— Walt Whitman

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

— Brené Brown

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people…

— Calvin Trillin

In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws.

— Leonard Mlodinow

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

— Vilfredo Pareto

One’s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense…

— Miuccia Prada

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

— Teresa de Lauretis

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

Damn! that's some quantum shit right there man! You should be teaching classes!

— Kevin Hart

I think it's a theory, the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

— Ron Paul

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

— Fabiola Gianotti

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe