Theory Quotes
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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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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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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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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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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most practical solution is a good theory.
Albert Einstein
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
Albert Einstein
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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
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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'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
Kate Grenville
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
Albert Einstein
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ...
Hannes Alfven