Theory Quotes
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
Cargill Gilston Knott
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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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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
Carol Bly
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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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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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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
Terence McKenna
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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.
Sergio Leone
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
Witold Rybczynski
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
James Hetfield Metallica
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
Ivar Giaever
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
Michael Behe
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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
Richard Feynman
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
William Baziotes
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Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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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.
Boman Irani
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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.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Nick Minchin
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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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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
Michael Moorcock
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
Judith Butler
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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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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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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
Thomas Nagel