Theory Quotes
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The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
Albert Einstein
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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.
David Stockman
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The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
Emily James Smith Putnam
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I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
Ray Bradbury
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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
R. Edward Freeman
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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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.
Stefan Banach
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Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
William James
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Jules Verne
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Elliott Sober
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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.
Steve Scalise
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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.)
Galileo Galilei
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
Charles Ferguson
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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.
Terence McKenna
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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.
Natalie Portman
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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.
Ray Comfort
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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
Nathan Seiberg
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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
William Stanley Jevons