Theory Quotes · Page 59

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

— Vern Poythress

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

— Wendell Berry

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

— Jerry A. Coyne

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

— Brian Greene

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

— Madonna Ciccone

“Real science is recognizing an outcome, not always about reinforcing your theory.”

— Jeffrey Fry

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

— Jim Peebles

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the…

— Antonin Artaud

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to…

— Ray Comfort

American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily…

— Paul Goodman

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting…

— Paul Fry

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create…

— Sidney Blumenthal

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest…

— Sherry Turkle

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are…

— Hermann Bondi

Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great…

— Zooey Deschanel

“Even a good, inveterate atheist like physicist Richard Feynman once said of the fine structure constant, “All good theoretical physicists put this…

— Sam Kean

General relativity is in the old Newtonian framework where you predict what will happen, not the probability of what will happen. And…

— Brian Greene

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently…

— John Marshall

Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that…

— George Lakoff

Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed…

— Luce Irigaray

“There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes…

— Henning Genz

We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing…

— Frans de Waal

Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality…

— Victor J. Stenger

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

— Albert Einstein

“This may be old hat to some, but in the quantum realm, the things we take for granted aren’t really things at…

— Sol Luckman

Critical race theory is racist. It does nothing to bring us together.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

— Leon M. Lederman

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

— Wolfgang Ketterle

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive…

— David Stove

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

— Denis Diderot

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

— Anonymous

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

— Anonymous

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

— Donald Davidson

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

“If you think you understand quantum theory . . . you don’t understand quantum theory.’*”

— Richard Dawkins