Theory Quotes
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
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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.
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I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.
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When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.
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Your theory is true, to a degree. The great teams are the ones that keep improving when they're having success. It's easier to handle failure than success.
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Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.
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No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
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That’s because they don’t know. It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
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People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
