J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• 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
  • Revolution
  • Theory
  • Blind

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Being
  • Evolution
  • Theory

• 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
  • Communication
  • Theory
  • Philosophical

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Small
  • Change
  • Theory

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Theory

• 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
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

• I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Reading

• All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Freedom
  • Theory

• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Success
  • Feel
  • Theory

• The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Beautiful
  • Fate
  • Theory

• Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Thought
  • Theory

• Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Lord
  • Theory
  • Correct

• in terms of personnel, or changing the technique, there are a couple of things you can do there. We shouldn't have any blocked, and we've already had two. So it concerns us.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Couple
  • Tactics

• I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Theory
  • Relatives
  • Hire

• You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Practice
  • Theory
  • Deny

• Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And I don't blame individual women for wanting to keep an eye on it. I blame the government for not having subsidized high-quality day care. Should it be on a woman no matter how rich she is to be a one-woman show where she finds the nanny, interviews the nanny, does a psychological evaluation of the nanny, supervises the nanny? It's criminal how little America cares about child care, which is to me the pressing issue of our nation.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Children
  • Individual
  • Blame

• Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Wish
  • Suffering

• The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Theory
  • Technic