Theory Quotes - Page 4

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

The best theory is inspired by practice.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

Theory can blind observation.

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!