Theory Quotes
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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.
Richard Feynman
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Terence McKenna
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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
Burnett Hillman Streeter
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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.
Ernst Haas
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My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
Alexander Kotov
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
James Hetfield Metallica
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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?
Ali Larijani
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
William Baziotes
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One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
Chris Argyris
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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.
William Wordsworth
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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.
Ivar Giaever
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle
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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.
Eric Johnson
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
Judith Butler
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
Richard Feynman
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
Scott Thompson
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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.
Terry Eagleton
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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.
Thomas Nagel
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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
Norwood Russell Hanson
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
Cargill Gilston Knott
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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.
Evan Rachel Wood
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
Carol Bly
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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.
Nick Minchin