Theory Quotes

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

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.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.

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

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

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.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

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

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

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

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

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

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.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

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

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur 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.

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

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

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

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

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

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.