Theory Quotes - Page 16

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are?

The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it... Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Not every conspiracy is a theory.

Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.