Theory Quotes

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

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

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

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

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.

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.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.