Theory Quotes
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The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?
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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.
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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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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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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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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.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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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.
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
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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.
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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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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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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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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.
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What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience
