Theory Quotes · Page 40

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

— Isaac Asimov

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

— Marisha Pessl

When we cannot look around and explain anything we are the quantum world.

— Akiane Kramarik

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

— Tucker Carlson

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

— Brian Kilmeade

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.

— Ashoke Sen

“Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of…

— David Wong

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is…

— Terry Eagleton

My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways…

— Eric Fellner

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain…

— Joey Santiago

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics,…

— Anonymous

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before…

— Charlie Munger

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound…

— Paul Halmos

“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally…

— Carl Johan Calleman

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and…

— Allen W. Wood

“All this attending educational lectures and reading is greatly tempting, of course, and a great many would-be students spend their whole lives…

— H.M. Forester

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge…

— Hilary Kornblith

“…let us point out precisely the difficulties of empiricism as a theory of knowledge. First, it begins with two fixed, unchangeable ultimates--mind…

— Holly Estil Cunningham

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…

— David Berlinski

“We walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot ( she said and proved that she…

— Otto Robert Frisch

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

— Balthazar Getty

“Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.”

— Stephen H. Wolinsky

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

— Arthur Koestler

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

— Russell Baker

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

— Albert Einstein

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

— Jennifer Wyatt

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

— David Gross

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

— Mark Twain

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

— Cristina Saralegui

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

— Gerard Debreu

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

— Kara Ross

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

— Thomas Carlyle

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

— Shmuel Weinberger

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

— Patricia Churchland