Theory Quotes · Page 52

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

— David Brooks

“Ideas need to be converted into a theory of action on how it will accomplish a goal.”

— Dwight McNeill

This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

— Jeanette Winterson

My theory is that if you have pizza one night, you can just make a better choice the the next day.

— Vogue Williams

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

— Albert Oehlen

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

— Hendrik Lenstra

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

— Ellen Glasgow

The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify…

— Franz Grillparzer

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or…

— Thomas A. Edison

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the…

— Dick Francis

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the…

— Rudolf Arnheim

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for…

— Earl Browder

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the…

— John Pringle Nichol

A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an…

— Harold Jeffreys

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than…

— Rick Yancey

I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at…

— Talal Asad

“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you…

— Marcia Gay Harden

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to…

— Michio Kaku

Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to…

— David Quammen

“In a Newtonian world, all physical quantities, like energy and spin, can take on any values whatsoever. They range over the entire…

— John D. Barrow

It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation…

— Alan Guth

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

— Richard P. Feynman

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

— David Lee

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

— Claude Bernard

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

— William Hazlitt

I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

— Amy Ruley

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

— Evan Rachel Wood

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Kazimierz Dabrowski and his Theory of Positive Disintegration.”

— Lauren Sapala

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

— Reid Hoffman

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

— Manly Hall

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

— Jordan Peterson

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive…

— Charles Grandison Finney

“What we often fail to realize is that the quantum field responds to what we are, not necessarily what we want.”

— Greg Kuhn