Theory Quotes · Page 58

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

— Albert Einstein

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

— Michio Kaku

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

— Sue Gardner

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

— H. Allen Smith

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

— Lene

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

— W. H. Auden

“Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.”

— Fredric Jameson

Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.

— Frederick Lenz

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away…

— Muhammad Yunus

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real…

— Tariq Ramadan

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of…

— Ludwig von Mises

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when…

— Chinua Achebe

A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at…

— Francisco J. Ayala

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was…

— Ariel Pink

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing…

— Jose Saramago

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the…

— Woodrow Wilson

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of…

— Gregory Benford

I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory…

— Charlie Munger

“The mind calls out for a third theory to unify all of physics, and for a simple reason. Nature is in an…

— Lee Smolin

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that…

— Roland Emmerich

...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write…

— Michio Kaku

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there…

— Stephen Hawking

An ounce of action is worth more than a ton of theory, and the reward for a thing well done is having…

— Edwin Mamerto

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

— Wilhelm Wien

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say…

— Niels Bohr

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.”

— Neal Stephenson

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

— Luis A. Ferre

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

— Max von Laue

When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.

— Elliott Sober

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

— Bernard Bailyn

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

— Gerrit Smith

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

— Richard Dawkins

“Occam’s Razor: The simplest theory is usually the correct one.” He”

— David S. Brody

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

— Michel de Montaigne

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

— Lisa Randall