Theory Quotes

2628 Theory quotes by 1622 unique authors

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe… — Jeff Bridges
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke
In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well… — Nolan Bushnell
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
Architecture theory is very interesting. — David Byrne
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things. — Kirk Cameron
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a… — Thomas Carlyle
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the… — Robert Caro
I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang… — Jimmy Carter
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. — Arthur Cayley
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic… — Noam Chomsky
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to… — Paul Broun
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true… — Mikhail Bakunin
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. — Wernher von Braun
My decision to begin research in radio astronomy was influenced both by my wartime experience with electronics and antennas and by one of my teachers,… — Antony Hewish
I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up. — Amy Ruley
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. — Charley Lau
Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when… — Unknown Author
We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern of the chromosomes.… — Richard Goldschmidt
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence… — Bruce Alberts

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