Theory Quotes
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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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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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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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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.
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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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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
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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.
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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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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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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.
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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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Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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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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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
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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.
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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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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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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.
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One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
