Theory Quotes - Page 11

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.