Theory Quotes

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. (H. L. Mencken)
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. View quote
Niels Bohr
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. View quote
Niels Bohr
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. View quote
Indira Gandhi
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. View quote
H. L. Mencken
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. View quote
Franz Kafka
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. View quote
Albert Einstein
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. View quote
Mike Myers
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. (Edward Witten)
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. View quote
Benito Mussolini
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. View quote
Douglas Adams
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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? View quote
Erma Bombeck
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. View quote
Karl Marx
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. (George Boole)
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general. View quote
Robert Aumann
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. View quote
Georges Cuvier