Theory Quotes - Page 12

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation [i.e., time, chance, and chemistry], how has it come into being? I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation.

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.