Theory Quotes - Page 18

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

All the theories mess you up inside.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may be able to understand it in biology.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep understanding of what problem these theories attempt to solve. They learn but little of the evolution of evolutionary theory.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.