Theory Quotes · Page 47

'theres a theory for everything & without theory there is no practice'

— Issac Newton

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

— Dean Ornish

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to…

— Brian Cox

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

— Richard P. Feynman

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

— Leon M. Lederman

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

— Gerard Way

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

— Brian Eno

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

— Douglas Coupland

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he…

— Junichiro Koizumi

Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law"…

— Vilfredo Pareto

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they…

— Sark

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the…

— Ann Aguirre

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its…

— Malcolm Knowles

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be…

— Jiang Zemin

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic…

— Frederick Seitz

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly…

— Liam Gillick

“We know there is a conservation law for electric charge; this simply means that the sum of these charges in any process…

— Henning Genz

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your…

— Benjamin Franklin

Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of…

— Paul Signac

Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and…

— George Fitzhugh

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

— Brian May

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

— John Carew

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.

— Mary Daly

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the…

— Anonymous

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

— Constance Fenimore Woolson

''Yesterday was the past, today is the present, and tomorrow is the future''

— QueenColor495

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

— Niels Bohr

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

— Ernst Mayr

People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

— Sidney Coleman

Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.

— David Gross

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

— Daniel Dennett

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

— Scott Aaronson

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

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

— P. J. O'Rourke