Theory Quotes
-
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
-
The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
-
Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
-
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature.
-
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
-
I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
-
The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
-
A theory is a battlefield in your head.
-
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
-
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
-
You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.
-
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
-
I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.
-
No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
-
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
-
That’s because they don’t know. It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.
-
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
-
One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.
-
When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.
-
My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
-
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
-
Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
-
Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. Not that I really believed in my mom’s phase theory. It didn’t sound like an explanation—it sounded like an excuse. I don’t think my mom got the whole guy thing. I didn’t get the guy thing either. And I was a guy.
-
Life is so unlike theory.
