Theory Quotes - Page 8

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

Irish nationalists can never be the assenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation. The two nation theory is to us an abomination and a blasphemy.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.