Theory Quotes

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

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