Theory Quotes · Page 38

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

— John Ambrose Fleming

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

— Samael Aun Weor

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

— Stephen Jay Gould

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to…

— Abraham Kaplan

The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science…

— Tami Hoag

Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt…

— Lubos Motl

I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it…

— Bob Woodward

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives…

— David Chalmers

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

— Richard Allen Epstein

“You’re the keyboard wizard; the Google Scholar; the armchair expert; the one with a quote for every occasion. That’s your Hallmark, if…

— H.M. Forester

When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children…

— Don Tapscott

We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in…

— William Ernest Hocking

I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"…

— Charlie Munger

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

— Richard Dawkins

“Not one of them [formulae] can be shown to have any existence, so that the formula of one of the simplest of…

— Alexander William Williamson

Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people…

— Morgan Freeman

One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all…

— Seth Godin

Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on…

— Deneen Borelli

“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had…

— Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ

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

— George Stigler

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

— Jules Verne

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

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

— Clayton M. Christensen

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

— John Currin

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

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

— Arthur Koestler

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Henri Poincare