Theory Quotes
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You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.
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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.
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The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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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.
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It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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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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Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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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.
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
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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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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.
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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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Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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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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I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.
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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?
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Life is so unlike theory.
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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
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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.
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
