Theory Quotes · Page 53

“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”

— John Wilmot

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

— Mao Zedong

The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

— Jacqueline de Ribes

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

— Thomas Huxley

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

— Massimo Pigliucci

Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

— Drake

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

“But here’s what physicists tell us. Things, in the quantum world, do not happen in steps. They happen immediately.”

— Pam Grout

Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism…

— Joseph Stalin

A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who…

— Albert Einstein

“Just as ice, water and steam are different manifestations of H2O, Maxwell showed in 1864 that electricity and magnetism were likewise different…

— Manjit Kumar

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When…

— Keith Jarrett

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time,…

— Lucy Powell

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which…

— Elliott Sober

Nearly everyone I know seems to have a well-developed theory as to why this country is past redemption, or almost, and every…

— Bret Stephens

This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to…

— Simon Heffer

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge…

— Karl Mannheim

Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes,…

— Killer Mike

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by…

— Stephan Pastis

The madman theory can work, but it only works if it's strategic. And I think one of the problems that President Trump…

— E. J. Dionne

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we…

— Moby

“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random…

— Richard Dawkins

The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist.…

— Charles Lane Poor

“You can't learn what you're unable to understand but a theory is infeasible until you won't need it.”

— Robin Sacredfire

I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle.

— Richard Wiseman

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

— Tony Hsieh

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

— Nick Park

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

— Vijay Seshadri

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human…

— Rudolf Steiner

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

— Steven Soderbergh

“Quantum mechanics has to be expanded, to allow for many different descriptions, depending on who the observer is.”

— Lee Smolin

“many experiments which intrigued him. He was particularly interested in the properties of light. By using a spinning colour”

— Andrew Thomas

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

— Warren Buffett

I am proof that Einstein's "e equals m c squared" is wrong. My mass has increased, but my energy has dropped.

— Dennis Miller

Love is like a immortal flower you first plant the seed, then u let it grow ,then finally it become fully grown

— Michael Country

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…

— Anonymous

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

— Alexander Lowen

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

— China Mieville