Theory Quotes · Page 49

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

— Eric Whitacre

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

— Albert Einstein

Neither evolution nor creation qualifies as a scientific theory.

— Duane Gish

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

— James Stephens

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for…

— Howard Wainer

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have…

— Edward Witten

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a…

— Joanna Newsom

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither…

— Lord Acton

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

— Albert Einstein

“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change…

— George Boole

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The…

— George Friedman

“Things have becone even more mysterious. We have recently discovered that when we make observations at still larger scales, corresponding to billions…

— Lee Smolin

Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread…

— William Alcott

I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst…

— Ellen Hopkins

My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in…

— Melissa Gilbert

Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our…

— Andrea M. Ghez

This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance…

— W. R. Thompson

Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be…

— Randolph Sinks Foster

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Don't be courteous for everyone, because some people do not believes in Newton's Third Law :-(

— Aman Agarwal

Dont be an example in someone elses theory, write yours using your own examples.

— Vikrant Parsai

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

— John Brunner

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

— Charles Dickens

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

— David Lee

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

— Oliver Heaviside

I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

— Brian Greene

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

— Peter Drucker

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

— Sepp Herberger

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

— Robert P. Murphy

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

— Rene Thom

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

— Tom Turner

There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.

— Brian Greene