Theory Quotes · Page 51

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

— George Mercer Dawson

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

— Savielly Tartakower

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

— Terry Pratchett

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

— Brigitte Boisselier

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

— Dave Barry

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

— Meryl Streep

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

— Paul Erdos

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that…

— Albert Einstein

“For instance, a black hole as light as a small asteroid would emit about as much radiation as a million-megaton hydrogen bomb,…

— Brian Greene

“If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don’t know. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with the matter, and it’s…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory…

— Paulo Freire

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe…

— Albert Einstein

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame…

— George W. Bush

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say,…

— Jimmy Carter

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my…

— Donald Hall

We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll…

— Kip Thorne

“Unfortunately, no one has ever successfully postulated a super-symmetry holding between two known particles. Instead, in all the supersymmetric theories the numbers…

— Lee Smolin

I didn't understand the Weber bar and how gravitational waves interacted with it. I sat and thought about it over a weekend,…

— Rainer Weiss

When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of…

— Allen W. Wood

“Itwas one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant wasimportant. Now of course it's still important, of course,…

— Steven Weinberg

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each…

— Lucretius

Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.

— Richard P. Feynman

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

— Butch Trucks

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

— Carl von Clausewitz

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're…

— Jessica Alba

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. :D

— Bernard Baruch

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

— Stephen Hawking

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

— Thomas Nagel

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

— Richard P. Feynman

I've gotten such good feedback from that [re-team with Wil Wheaton for Big Bang Theory appearance], and I hardly did anything.

— Brent Spiner

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

— Jean Danielou

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

— Karl Popper

“one will not break through to the enemy with theory. Directness is most important, when in front of the lion’s den…”

— Rati Tsiteladze

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

— Anonymous

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

— Tim Robbins

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

— David R. Ellis