Theory Quotes
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The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?
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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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Ultimately, we hope to find a fundamental theory that explains everything with no input parameters.
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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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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
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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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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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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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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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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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A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
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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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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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We see the world in terms of our theories.
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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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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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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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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.
