“And when were theories useless? I was a thinker, not a fighter, and the world was always in need of thoughts.” — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway. — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way,… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the… — Mike McCarthy Copy Share Image
String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the… — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
It's my theory that one of the big reasons clinics have shut down - and will continue to shut down - is… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image