Theory Quotes · Page 42

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

— Gregory Benford

“general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,”

— Brad S. Gregory

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory

— Kenneth R. Miller

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

— Aldous Huxley

“a general theory of strategy must, I believe, be a theory of power in all its forms, not just a theory of…

— J.C. Wylie

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

— David Hilbert

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I…

— Rick Warren

In community we work out our connectedness to God, to one another and to ourselves...In human relationships I learn that theory is…

— Joan D. Chittister

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis

When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity…

— Brian Greene

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period…

— Dave Van Ronk

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at…

— James Hillman

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with…

— Margaret Halsey

All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,…

— Jacob Bronowski

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the…

— James Russell Lowell

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the…

— Angela Carter

There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too…

— Richard Dawkins

Now I don't have to explain to the world about India's position. The world is unanimously appreciating India's position. And the world…

— Narendra Modi

My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law…

— Stephan Kinsella

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

— Winston Churchill

“Notation on Quark Manipulation as Applied to the Time/Space Continuum.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

— Richard Livingstone

“If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyed instantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.”

— Dan Brown

“each elementary particle is paired with a superpartner particle. However, the LHC has not detected any of these predicted”

— Andrew Thomas

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

— Shaun Sipos

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

— John McCain

I have this theory that if one can go out of their way to show compassion, it will start a chain reaction…

— Rachel Scott

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave…

— N. T. Wright

Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.

— James P. Hogan

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

— Arthur Balfour

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

— Allen Tate