Theory Quotes - Page 2

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.

Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present