Theory Quotes
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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
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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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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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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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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
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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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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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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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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'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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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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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
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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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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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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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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
