Theory Quotes · Page 57

“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

— August Wilhelm von Hofmann

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

— Jason Ritter

I think 'The Big Bang Theory' is one of the greatest written TV shows of all time.

— Ser'Darius Blain

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable. It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang. Sometimes…

— Buddy Wakefield

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones,…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training…

— David Simon

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until…

— David M. Raup

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as…

— H. L. Mencken

An apple fell and Newton discovered the law of gravity. Hundreds of bombs fell on Palestine and no one discovered the law…

— Danish

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with…

— Ian Hart

Exact definition of physics:physics is the study of finding a black cat in a dark room when there is no cat actually,you…

— Anonymous

“In the intricate and mutable space-time geometry at the black hole, in-falling matter and energy interacted with the virtualities of the vacuum…

— Poul Anderson

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that…

— Paul Davies

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ultimate unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions has probably not yet been achieved, but a solid beach-head appears to have been…

— Abraham Pais

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our…

— Noam Chomsky

As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes,…

— Hannah Hurnard

“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the…

— Colin Howson

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most…

— Thomas Bernhard

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

— Robert Frost

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is,

— Lisa Randall

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

— Winston Churchill

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

— Rajneesh

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

— Barry Barish

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

— Andrew Lo

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder

My theory is if Tony Williams can sing, and if Kanye West can sing, so can I! So I try!

— Thundercat

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

— Allen Tate

“This is Sailor Supergirl,” George says. “She knows all about black holes.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

There is another theory that states: This has already happened …

— Douglas Adams

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money…

— Paul Ormerod

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

— Yogi Berra

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

— Quincy Jones