Theory Quotes
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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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.
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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
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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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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
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When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.
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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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It's my theory that comedy is going to die out in the year 6000.
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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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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.
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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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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
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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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One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
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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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A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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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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That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
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We see the world in terms of our theories.
