Theory Quotes
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
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Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.
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Your theory is true, to a degree. The great teams are the ones that keep improving when they're having success. It's easier to handle failure than success.
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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
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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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I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
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As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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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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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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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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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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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.
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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The important thing is what we do, and not the deceitful theory of reading others' intentions. This is also a new thing — they say: "We know that Iran's intention is to pursue nuclear weapons." Do you have a device that reads intentions?
