Theory Quotes · Page 46

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

— Thomas Malthus

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

— E. F. Schumacher

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is ... If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.”

— Richard Feynman

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

— Louis Agassiz

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

— Albert Einstein

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

— Stephen Jay Gould

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

— Justus von Liebig

I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.

— Kimberly Bryant

One thing that I must do with every wash is deep condition. I have this theory in my head that it will…

— Justine Skye

Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and…

— Ray Bradbury

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

— Anonymous

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion…

— Barbara Degenevieve

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the…

— Robert Frost

“Our Higgs Boson is a way of thinking, of making Quantum Leaps in the thought processes that ultimately lead to insights that…

— Hemdan M. Aly

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of…

— Walther Bothe

“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever…

— James Gleick

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood;…

— Charles Hodge

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of…

— William Hazlitt

I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which…

— George Boole

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by…

— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you…

— Richard Dawkins

Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear…

— John Dalton

A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

— Anonymous

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

— Bill Maher

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

— Lisa Randall

“cited by Pi I-hsun, we may see in this theory a probable solution of the mystery. Between Ssu-ma Ch'ien and”

— Sun Tzu

Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.

— Sam Davis

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

— Kemp Muhl

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

— Bertrand Russell

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

— Saul Dushman

“Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

— Michael Polanyi

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

— John Ralston Saul

I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.

— Fiona Bruce

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

— James Tobin