Theory Quotes · Page 66

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another…

— Fischer Black

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

— Noam Chomsky

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

— Richard Allen Epstein

Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level…

— Don Edward Beck

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to…

— Andre Gide

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend…

— Ian Stevenson

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

— Tucker Carlson

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

— W. Edwards Deming

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

— James McAvoy

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well…

— Maria Montessori

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without…

— Gayle Forman

In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces…

— Stephen Jay Gould

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have…

— Stephen Hawking

“Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don't ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as…

— R.C. Harvey

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory

— Kenneth R. Miller

“I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art.…

— Ernest Rutherford

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily…

— Arabella Weir

My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside…

— Kyle Kinane

If your talking about the Summerdale house and the bodies found there, we feel that some of them died of drug overdose,…

— John Wayne Gacy

When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of…

— Erich Fromm

Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that…

— Jay Leno

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as…

— Nick Cohen

I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers…

— Henrik Ibsen

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful…

— Albert Einstein

I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

— Gary Zukav

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

— Byron Katie

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

— Roger Cohen

The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof…

— Eduard Bruckner

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

— Albert Oehlen

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management…

— Colin Powell

As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the…

— James Madison

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One…

— Elihu Root

Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized…

— Chris Mooney

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever…

— Walker Evans

The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining…

— David Graeber

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

— Albert Mohler

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a…

— Joanna Newsom

If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very…

— Tim Wu