Theory Quotes - Page 7

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it's good, we know that it is bad, but because there isn't any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come out of a human mind. To compare it to true science is a joke. There is nothing even slightly scientific about it.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.