Theory Quotes - Page 10

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!