Theory Quotes

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

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

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.