Theory Quotes
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
Amy Lowell
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Life had stepped into the place of theory.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell
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This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.
Andrew Dickson White
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Doing this well requires a deep knowledge of the data mixed with a goodly dose of economic theory and economic judgment, ... Greenspan is, of course, a master.
Ben Bernanke
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I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
Joyce Grenfell
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
Ernst Mayr
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Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.
Alexander Lowen
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
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My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? I have studied it…I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. —GEORG CANTOR
Charles Seife
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The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.
Elliott Sober
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Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate group selection, even if they do not use the g-word.
Elliott Sober
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I thought of my mother. Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
Scott Spencer
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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
William of Occam
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Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!
Bent Larsen
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I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.
Nikola Tesla
