Theory Quotes
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The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.
Terry Eagleton -
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.
Thomas Kuhn
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I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
Eugenie Scott -
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 -
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
Steve Earle -
The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
Richard Feynman -
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 -
When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.
Elliott Sober
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I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.
Rich Mullins -
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
Chris Argyris -
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
Richard Feynman -
As Trick points out, sports leagues aren’t concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory.
Brian Christian -
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 -
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.
Sidney Altman
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I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
Ernst Haas -
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
Tim Robbins -
I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
Evan Rachel Wood -
We see the world in terms of our theories.
Thomas Kuhn -
I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
Steven Soderbergh -
Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.
Elliott Sober