Theory Quotes - Page 6

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.

The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories.

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

Even theories must have foundations.

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.