Theory Quotes
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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
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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.
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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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A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
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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.
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I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
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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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I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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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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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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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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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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That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened - good, bad, or anywhere in between - it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
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There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
