Theories Quotes
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“What does not yet exist cannot now be known. The future is imagined by each man for himself and this process of the imagination is a vital part of the process of decision. But it does not make the future known. The absolute and eternal difference between the recorded past and the unformed future, despite its overwhelming significance for the very stuff of human existence, has been often overlooked in our economic theories.”
G. L. S. Shackle
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Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
Paul Sabatier
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The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.
Martin Heidegger
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All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Hermann Hesse
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There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.
Edward Humes
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Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives advice to philosophers, which I call "methodological naturalismp." It says that the methods that philosophers should use in assessing philosophical theories are limited to the methods that scientists ought to use in assessing scientific theories.
Elliott Sober
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There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
Ivar Giaever
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There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Auguste Renoir
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The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla
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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
Paul Kalanithi
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The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics.
Eduard Bruckner
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
Gautama Buddha
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I’m working on several theories,” I said. “But I’m currently favoring the hypothesis that the moon has a seemingly arbitrary effect on magic because it likes to piss me off.” “That’s a theory with a high degree of applicability to other spheres of life,” he said. “Yes it is,” I said, and we spontaneously fist
Ben Aaronovitch
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It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
Ernst Mayr
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Literary theories will not make a writer write.
Allen Wier
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A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.
Marcel Proust
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I couldn't stop throwing theories at Jimmi Simpson, and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show Westworlds. I promise."
Evan Rachel Wood
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The World is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be.
Edmund Berkeley
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I'm now in a big working period, which takes me up so much that hardly anything of me remains. I have never been strong in theories and this becomes worse and worse. My work should give me satisfaction, and that is about life and death.. .Several paintings full of life and beauty arose again and give me the courage and joy to proceed on the road. There are also several paintings in which I am involved for less than half, discharges in a short time, which have existence for a while, but will not reach shaping.
Bram van Velde
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The running joke on set of the Westworlds was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I think I'm Dr. Ford. I'm Anthony Hopkins. That's the twist." We love all of the theories. Part of the fun of that show is figuring it out.
Evan Rachel Wood
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle