Theory Quotes
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
Michael Behe
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
Thomas Carlyle
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
Nan Goldin
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My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
Alexander Kotov
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Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.
Judith Butler
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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
Thomas Nagel
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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.
Elliott Sober
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I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.
Tony Blair
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I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.
Eugenie Scott
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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.
Thomas Kuhn
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One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
Chris Argyris
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The great object is to find the theory of the matter of X-rays before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
Ernest Rutherford
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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.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
Terry Eagleton
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
Andrew Jackson Davis
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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.
Richard Feynman
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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
David Finkelstein
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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.
John Brunner
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
Eric Johnson
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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.
Dan Monson
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
Terry Eagleton
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle
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I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
Evan Rachel Wood
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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.
Burnett Hillman Streeter