Theory Quotes
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ...
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
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My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.
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It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena.
