Theory Quotes
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
Emma Willard
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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
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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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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
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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
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
Walter Lang
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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
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
Albert Einstein
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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
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
Albert Einstein
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them.
August Krogh
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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
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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 dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
Kate Bush
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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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When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.
Betty Sue Flowers
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
Sam Trammell
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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
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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