Theory Quotes
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
L'Wren Scott -
A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles and not be forced to state them a priori.
Albert Einstein
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione -
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
Walter Lang -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.
Umberto Eco -
Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
Albert Einstein -
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
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass -
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny -
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
S. Jay Olshansky -
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall -
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
Kaley Cuoco -
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper -
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
Olga Kurylenko -
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
Sam Trammell -
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
Ida Tarbell
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow -
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen -
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons -
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
Imre Lakatos