Theory Quotes
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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We see the world in terms of our theories.
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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'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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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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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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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
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I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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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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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
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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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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
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A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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.
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My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
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After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.
