Theory famous quotes

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
-- A. C. Cuza

#Social #Explaining #Theory

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Study #Behavior #Theory

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
-- A. N. Wilson

#World #Physics #Theory

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
-- Adam Savage

#Beautiful #Fractals #Theory

I don't like writing essays or theory.
-- Adrian Mitchell

#Writing #Writing Essays #Theory

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
-- Alan Guth

#Bangs #Bigs #Theory

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
-- Albert Bandura

#Theory

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
-- Albert Einstein

#Theory #Conclusion

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
-- Albert Einstein

#Math #Computer #Theory

It is the theory which decides what we can observe
-- Albert Einstein

#Science #Theory

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

#Arguing #Theory #Waiter

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
-- Albert Einstein

#Path #Birth #Theory

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
-- Albert Einstein

#Theory #Thermodynamics

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
-- Albert Einstein

#Foundation #Moral #Theory

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
-- Albert Einstein

#Space #Matter #Theory

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.
-- Alexander Lowen

#Needs #Suits #Theory

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
-- Alexander Pope

#Art #Tag #Theory

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
-- Alice Neel

#Thinking #Paint #Theory

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
-- Alice Neel

#Faces #Theory

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
-- Allen Tate

#Psychological #Theory #Deals

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
-- Allen Tate

#Detachment #Theory

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.
-- Amit Goswami

#Objectivity #Hallucinations #Theory

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
-- Amos Lee

#Zero #Needs #Theory

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
-- Anne Carson

#Men #Theory

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons

#Southern #Theory #Gifted

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
-- Anthony de Mello

#Opinion #Masters #Theory

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
-- Antoine Lavoisier

#Oxygen #Claims #Theory

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Practice #Impossible #Theory

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Reading #Trying #Theory

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Understanding #Scientist #Theory

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi

#Gravity #Found #Theory

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
-- Arabella Weir

#Needs #Theory #Hurdle

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
-- Arthur Balfour

#Independent #Science #Theory

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Taken #Spaceships #Theory

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
-- Arthur Cayley

#Beauty #Math #Theory

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Too Much #Results #Theory

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Statistics #Results #Theory

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Knowledge #Theory

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Facts #Accepting #Theory

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.
-- Asa Butterfield

#Theory

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
-- Asa Gray

#Causes #Theory #Refreshing

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
-- Assata Shakur

#Practice #Theory #Incomplete

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
-- Balthazar Getty

#Independent #Different #Theory

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Window #Theory

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
-- Blythe Danner

#Digging #Stuff #Theory

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
-- Bo Burnham

#Theory

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
-- Boman Irani

#Children #Theory #Right Thing

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.
-- Bret Easton Ellis

#People #Needs #Theory

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
-- Brian Eno

#Simple #Evolution #Theory

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
-- Brian Greene

#Theory #Precision #Universe

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.
-- Brian Greene

#Should #Partners #Theory

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
-- Brian Greene

#Years #Support #Theory

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.
-- Brigitte Boisselier

#Girl #Kind #Theory

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
-- Bruno Latour

#Social #Theory #Instruments

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Serious #Theory #Homosexual

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Practice #Iron #Theory

I have a theory that theories are destructive.
-- Carl Whitaker

#Theory

Theory is the practice of the impotent.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Practice #Theory

Theory can blind observation.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Design #Blind #Theory

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
-- Chaim Weizmann

#Theory #Understood

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.
-- Channing Tatum

#Sweet #Nice #Theory

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.
-- Charles Darwin

#Principles #Facts #Theory

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
-- Charles Ferguson

#Economics #Theory #Difficult

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
-- Charles Lamb

#Practice #Enjoy Life #Theory

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.
-- Charlton Heston

#Believe #Theory #Audience

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
-- China Mieville

#Way #Theory #Scholar

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.
-- Chris Wooding

#Practice #Theory

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
-- Christian Lous Lange

#Political #Social #Theory

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
-- Christopher Hampton

#Important #Scientist #Theory

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
-- Claude Bernard

#Theory

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
-- Claude Bernard

#Science #Discovery #Theory

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
-- Claude Debussy

#Law #Pleasure #Theory

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
-- Constance Fenimore Woolson

#House #Theory #Scaffolding

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer
-- Curt Schilling

#Physics #Theory

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.
-- Cynthia Rowley

#Love You #Littles #Theory

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
-- Dana Carvey

#Years #Littles #Theory

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
-- David Antin

#Fundamentals #Pursuit #Theory

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
-- David Deutsch

#Common Sense #Common #Theory

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
-- David M. Raup

#Guilty #Innocent #Theory

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.
-- David Shrigley

#People #Want #Theory

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
-- David Stove

#Foundation #Logic #Theory

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
-- Derek Bailey

#Playing Music #Theory #Circumstances

The best practice is inspired by theory.
-- Donald Knuth

#Practice #Inspired #Theory

The best theory is inspired by practice.
-- Donald Knuth

#Practice #Inspired #Theory

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
-- Dylan McDermott

#Actors #Milk #Theory

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Theory

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
-- E. F. Schumacher

#Practice #Theory

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
-- Edd Roush

#Calling #Hitting #Theory

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
-- Eddie Van Halen

#Piano #Goes On #Theory

Even theories must have foundations.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Foundation #Statistics #Theory

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
-- Edith Hamilton

#Facts #Human Nature #Theory

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
-- Edward Gorey

#Art #Boring #Theory

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.
-- Edward Teller

#Simple #Facts #Theory

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
-- Edward Weston

#Theory #Approach

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.
-- Edward Witten

#Might #Theory #Strings

Observations always involve theory.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble

#Environment #Theory #Observation

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
-- Elinor Ostrom

#Diversity #Theory #Situation

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
-- Elizabeth Joan Smith

#Practice #Theory #Cheapness

Theories have nothing to do with life ...
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Theory

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
-- Elsa Einstein

#Funny #Husband #Theory