Theory Quotes · Page 6

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.…

— Paul Broun

You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean…

— Walter Isaacson

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

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

— Louis Agassiz

I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But…

— A. R. Rahman

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

— Cargill Gilston Knott

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can…

— Mao Zedong

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with…

— Michael Atiyah

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

— E. W. Howe

String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I…

— Brian Greene

In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that…

— Gino Severini

When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be…

— Bernard Baruch

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and…

— Eric Hoffer

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

— Mark Twain

This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but…

— Steven Weinberg

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this…

— Rebecca Goldstein

My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of…

— Christopher McDougall

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most…

— Nikola Tesla

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade…

— Paul Lockhart