Theory Quotes
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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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As Trick points out, sports leagues aren’t concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory.
Brian Christian
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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
Ben Miller
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Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.
Steve Stoute
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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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Life is so unlike theory.
Anthony Trollope
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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.
William Wordsworth
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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
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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.
Richard Feynman
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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
Walt Whitman
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The important thing is what we do, and not the deceitful theory of reading others' intentions. This is also a new thing — they say: "We know that Iran's intention is to pursue nuclear weapons." Do you have a device that reads intentions?
Ali Larijani
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
Richard Feynman
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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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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
Scott Thompson
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Evan Rachel Wood is a robot, yes. And some of them, there was one person in particular that was so sure, wrote like a whole thesis, and tagged the whole cast. He was like, "Here's my theory. And remember I said it first." He was so proud. And it could not have been farther from what we're actually doing, but it was cute. I love that people are getting so passionate about it because I went through a million different theories, and they would keep changing and evolving.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.
Terence McKenna
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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.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
Ivar Giaever
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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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My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
Alexander Kotov
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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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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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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