Theory Quotes
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Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!.... Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere.
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The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
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I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.
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I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
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E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)
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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
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It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
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Lack of specificity around stakeholder identity remains a serious obstacle to the further development of stakeholder theory and its adoption in actual practice by business managers. Nowhere is this shortcoming more evident than in stakeholder theory's treatment of the constituency known as 'community.
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Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
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Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
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My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.
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By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
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The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
