Theory Quotes - Page 14

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Topology and number theory are my faves.

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form. This theory can be called the 'general theory of evolution,' and the evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Observations always involve theory.