Theory Quotes · Page 39

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

— Amartya Sen

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

“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.”

— Wolfgang Pauli

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to…

— David Hilbert

Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition,…

— Brian Greene

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest…

— Burnett Hillman Streeter

IF there is no experiment,no observation,without observation,no inference,without inference control conclusion(theory or law)cant be stated.one process leads to another,one step mistook may…

— Adewale Ajibola

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,…

— Robert Higgs

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I…

— Albert Einstein

The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment… Hungry women are…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted…

— Leo Buscaglia

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding…

— Noam Chomsky

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories", said the Cow, "I've heard more than one clever creature draw a…

— Gregory Maguire

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Augusten Burroughs

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

“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

Black boys always fancy a mixed-race girl. That's my theory anyway.

— Miquita Oliver

Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

— Niels Bohr

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