Theory Quotes - Page 21

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.